"Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Change Quotes #Equality Quotes #Men Quotes

“The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.”

Source : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
“The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.”
“A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.”

Source : "Lester the legend back to claim the limelight" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2007.
“I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.”

Source : "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. August 07, 2009.
“You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.”
“Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.”
“A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”
“Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.”

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