"Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness."

-- Huston Smith

#Hero Quotes #Mold Quotes #Roles Quotes

“Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.”
“I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.”
“It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.”

Source : Charles Finch (2007). “A Beautiful Blue Death”, p.62, Macmillan
“They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.”

Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 24), 1975.
“Not every problem is solvable, okay.”

Source : "Republican Bob Corker Is Senate's Deal Maker". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 8, 2010.
“As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.”
“There's a common saying that everybody deep at heart loves their mother, except sometimes we decide our actual mothers don't measure up. And so we look for a replacement.”
“The word â€˜studioâ€™ is derives from â€˜studyâ€™. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. Itâ€™s to know them after we do it.”

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