"Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Brain Quotes

“And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.”
“You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.”

Source : "Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Interview - THE X-FILES: I Want to Believe". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 22, 2008.
“What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.”
“The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation has to learn it. And I'm not sure the recent generations have done that good a job of learning about it.”
“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.”
“I don't care that no one has successfully defended the (light heavyweight) title. I care about preparation, training and getting inside the cage to fight.”
“I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.”
“I'm not an alcoholic. I just drink that way.”

Source : FaceBook post by Christian Finnegan from Jun 26, 2013

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