"As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing Quotes #Blood Quotes #Working Together Quotes

“Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.”
“Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce”
“We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.”
“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.”
“Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'”

Source : Sue Halpern (2011). “Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly”, p.121, Vintage
“Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.”

Source : Source: www.chaoscontrol.com
“Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.”

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