"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there."

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James H. Austin

#Humanity Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Delusion Quotes

“Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.”
“Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.”

Source : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.97, University Press of Kentucky
“On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.”
“Most players unfortunately go to the casinos with an attitude that makes it even easier for casinos to psyche them into losing. Most except to lose; therefore, it's not too surprising when they achieve their goal.”
“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.”

Source : Statement to John Leyburn on May 01, 1870. "R. E. Lee: A Biography" by Douglas Southall Freeman, 1934.
“Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.”
“All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.”
“People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.”

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