"If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available."

-- Jim Lehrer

#People Quotes #Bells Quotes #Want Quotes

“Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.”
“In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”
“If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.”
“To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well.”

Source : Edward M. Hallowell (1997). “Worry: Controlling it and Using it Wisely”, Pantheon
“Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.”
“I don't order fries with my club sandwich.”
“A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.”

Source : James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.10, Macmillan
“As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Meat Loaf". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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