"He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated."

-- Joshua Reynolds

#Mind Quotes #Imitation Quotes #Resolve Quotes

“The enemy is stupid: he believes that the enemy is us, even though it's him!”
“What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.”
“But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.”
“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”
“They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal. But the onset of autism at 18 months is a recent development. Autism starting at 18 months rose very sharply in the mid-1980s, when the MMR vaccine came into wide use. A coincidence? Hardly!”
“Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.42, Cambridge University Press
“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.”
“I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.”

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