"My mind is not a bed to be made and remade."

--

Source : 'Ego 6' (1944) 9 June 1943

James Agate

#Mind Quotes #Bed Quotes #Made Quotes

“The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.”
“Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.”
“Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.”

Source : "Poverty and the Presidency: Uruguay’s Jose Mujica" by Conrad Black, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.
“I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.”
“One of the remarkable things about being 19 is that you can break open a case of warm beer at midnight and still be wide-eyed and alert for your eight-a.m. class. And that gave me the false impression that my life would always be like that.”
“One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.”

Source : Lester C. Thurow (1984). “Dangerous currents: the state of economics”, Vintage
“At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.”
“What we hear is the quality of our listening.”

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