"I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong."

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Duncan Green

#Way Quotes #Possibility Quotes #Conditional Quotes

“My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.”
“The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.”
“Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.”
“Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.”
“I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.”
“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
“I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit”
“Iâ€™ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.”

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