"It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead."

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Source : Sarah Dunn (2010). “Secrets To Happiness”, p.23, Hachette UK

Sarah Dunn

#New York Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Blue Quotes

“It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.”

Source : John Locke, David Wootton (1993). “Locke: Political Writings”, p.270, Hackett Publishing
“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.”
“The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.”
“The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.”
“I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.”
“God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt.”

Source : Robert W. Jenson (2001). “Systematic Theology: The Triune God”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA
“There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.”
“It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.”

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