"I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is."

-- Duncan Green

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.”
“Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.”
“If you give yourself permission to feel the pain and the joy, without attaching to either, then you can be happy or sad with an underlying peace that just makes everything feel like it's going to be OK.”
“Isabelle is like a warrior going into battle and she needsâ€¦ you said yes? You'd really choose an inexperienced squire?" she asked, her voice incredulous. He laughed. "I would." She smiled. "You're lying to me to make me feel better. It's all right. It's working. Now tell me another lie.”
“Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.”
“I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.”

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“You don't need to make shows about sex and drugs and violence to get ratings.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!....”

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