"In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy."

-- William Poundstone

#Art Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“I'm a REAL National Socialist, you'd better believe it!”
“History depends on who is telling the story.”
“The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.”

Source : Anthony Storr (1997). “Feet Of Clay”, p.152, Simon and Schuster
“I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.”

Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.
“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
“I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.”
“This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.”

Source : Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.16, Sounds True
“Parkour was never invented by anyone, it's always been here.”

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