"The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can."

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Source : Song: Humidity Built The Snowman

John Prine

#Philosophy Quotes #Men Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.”

Source : Song: Empty Me, Album: Running Back to You, 2008
“In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit.”

Source : Deborah Blum (2011). “The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York”, p.118, Penguin
“Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.”
“The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.”
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”

Source : John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1959). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 1812-1826”
“By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves.”
“Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.”

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