"The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality."

-- Jon Meacham

#Reality Quotes #Class Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.”

Source : Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1966). “Essential works”
“The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.”

Source : "Debriefing: Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma". Interview with Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2010.
“Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.”
“It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.”

Source : Steven Kotler (2008). “West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, JosÃ© Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."”

Source : Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
“I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.”

Source : "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.
“I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.”
“I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.”

Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.927, Delacorte Press

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