"One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress,"

-- Ezra Klein

#Belief Quotes #Individual Quotes #Congress Quotes

“Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.”
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
“one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster
“You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.”
“I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.”
“All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.”
“It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.”
“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.”

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