"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works."

-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#Agreement Quotes #Mind Quotes #Church Quotes

“I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.”

Source : Vash Young (2009). “A Fortune to Share”, p.17, Lulu.com
“I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our character should take on the best of that which is American, and combine it with the best of that which is German. By doing this, we can best serve the American people and their civilization.”
“If I have to remove one to save ten, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I have to waterboard somebody to save a thousand people, I'll do it in a heartbeat.”

Source : "Boondock Saints Interview: Norman Reedus & Sean P. Flanery". Interview with Alex Kecskes, acedmagazine.com. January 5, 2012.
“If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.”
“One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance”
“Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.”
“I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.”
“To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.”

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