"Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billionâ€“and those who will follow them.Â And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself.Â The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that youâ€™re not special. Because everyone is."

-- David McCullough

#Independent Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Creative Quotes

“The more wants a man has, the less freedom.”
“The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.”
“I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.”

Source : Johann Martin Augustin Scholz, John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, William Whittingham, Thomas Cranmer (1841). “The English Hexapla: Exhibiting the Six Important English Translations of the New Testament Scriptures, Wyclif, M.CCC.LXXX.; Tyndale, M.D.XXXIV; Cranmer, M.D.XXXIX; Genevan, M.D.LVII; Anglo-Rhemish, M.D.LXXXII; Authorised, M.DC.XI.; the Original Greek Text After Scholz, with the Various Readings of the Textus Receptus and the Principal Constantinopolitan and Alexandrine Manuscripts, and a Complete Collation of Scholz's Text with Griesbach's Edition of M.DCCC.V; Preceded by an Historical Account of the English Translations”, p.18
“Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for just a few moments, I'd like to go over the safety features of this aircraft. It has an engine, to make us go, and wings, to keep us in the air. There are seatbelts, which won't do you an awful lot of good if we fly into the side of a mountain.”
“It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that”
“Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.”
“Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.”
“If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it.”

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