"Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life."

-- Thorstein Veblen

#Aptitude Quotes #Habit Quotes #Individual Quotes

“Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.”
“Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?”

Source : "The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles". 429 BC.
“People my age don't always know where their music comes from.”
“In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.”
“Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.”
“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”
“There is always some madness in love.”
“If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.”

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