"Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow."

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Source : Austin Dacey (2008). “The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life”

Austin Dacey

#Life Quotes #Brain Quotes #Important Quotes

“Sometimes I see the world for how f-ked up it really is. I tell myself I'll be the one to make a change in it. I could die tonight; not make it to the sunrise, then I couldn't hear the pain in it.”
“Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.”

Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.358, Penguin
“An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.”
“What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.”
“It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
“If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.”
“I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.”
“Here`s the problem, and here`s what he`s going to learn. I do not work for Donald Trump. Come the 20th, Donald Trump works for us. We`re the boss.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com

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