"There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Death Quotes #Real Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders." --Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company”
“My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.”
“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.”
“I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?”
“No no no no no. RIP Phillip Hughes.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 27, 2014
“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”

Source : Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books
“If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.”
“I've realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don't say anything. Speak up!”

Source : "Celebs' Best Advice For Dealing With Bullies". Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. October 17, 2014.

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