"If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Meditation Quotes #Half Quotes #Affair Quotes

“The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer”
“Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.”
“There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.”
“I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.”

Source : Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”
“when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive”
“Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes.”
“Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips”
“Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.”

Source : "Infections and Inequalities". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 1, 1999.

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