"Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them."

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Source : "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 3, p. 181, 1953.

Theodore Sturgeon

#People Quotes #Moral Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.”
“I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie.”
“Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.”
“Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it.Â Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.”

Source : Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
“Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger”
“Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.”
“If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.”
“It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”

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