"The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic."

-- Chris Hedges

#Real Quotes #America Quotes #Intuition Quotes

“You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certificates were kept in the state of Hawaii, and now, I think that it's been pretty much disclosed that they used to have a long form and now they don't have a long form. Arizona used to have a long form, we now have a short form.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.”

Source : "The Press Under a Free Government". Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, January 17, 1925.
“Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!”

Source : "Zoff off, Moon loon, and Cheat schmeat". www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2001.
“When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taght not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.”

Source : "Yao Ming: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.
“it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one”
“Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.”
“Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.”
“Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call â€œnerdsâ€ and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know.”

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