"A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present."

-- Gilbert Highet

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #Mind Quotes

“What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?”
“I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.”
“Newcastle are absolutely besotted by injuries”

Source : "Stupid football quotes: 2012's best gaffes from managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2012.
“Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.”
“Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.”
“The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.”
“The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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