"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."

-- John Jay Chapman

#Men Quotes #Giving Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.”
“My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.”
“Even though I respect many different religions, I don't really particularly just follow one.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica [tin glazed earthenware], and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection.”
“Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.”
“To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.”

Source : "The Easiest Way to Get a Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.oprah.com. September 2015.
“Friendship is the bread of the heart.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford, Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1906). “Our village”
“I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.”

Source : "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview with John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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