"History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock."

-- Robert Heilbroner

#Surprise Quotes #Daily Life Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.”
“From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.”
“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”
“My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.”
“I don't believe in "average people" doing anything [about the climate]. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line of work, no matter how un-average that is. I mean: if you're a butcher, baker, ballerina, banker, or a plumber, envision yourself as the post-fossil-fuel version of yourself, and get right after it”
“I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.”
“What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.37, Northwestern University Press
“Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1886). “In Bohemia”

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