"The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think."

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Chuck Palahniuk

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun.”
“It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.126, Timber Press
“Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.”
“Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.”
“Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]”
“To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.167, Psychology Press
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
“And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.”

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