"Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it."

-- George Gaylord Simpson

#Character Quotes #Decision Quotes #Use Quotes

“The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.”
“Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.”
“It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.”
“I was not part of the golden age of the record industry, when musicians and producers were making real money. So I have no nostalgia about that time and I enjoy trying to build a new economy, a more humble one. And since I expect to sell only niche music, I feel quite solid, in this little economy. I know we will not become rich with this, but this is not the goal.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The real investment in life is not so much in the house you have, or the car. Your real investment is what you carry in the heart, and if you carry that passion for anything that you do, then nothing can really stop you. You enjoy the greater moments of everything,”

Source : "Explorer Mike Horn: Your Real Investment In Life Is Not Your House Or Your Car" by Alison Zaslav, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2014.
“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”
“I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.”

Source : Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.52, Michael O'Mara Books
“...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not ***** this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.”

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