"A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well."

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Source : "Reflections".

Idries Shah

#Race Quotes #Giving Quotes #Approval Quotes

“After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.”

Source : "'Paranormal activity' director Oren Peli on what scares him during Halloween" by Adam Rosenberg, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2009.
“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”
“A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately.”
“Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.”
“One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.”
“What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.”
“It takes a lot of work to do this every day, every day, but I feel, as a sheriff, I should get to know my people. I serve them. They don't serve me. I serve them. They're my bosses, and the more people I can see and talk to, I love it.”
“If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.”

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