"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

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Source : Saul Bellow (2016). “To Jerusalem and Back”, p.100, Odyssey Editions

Saul Bellow

#Inspirational Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Fear Quotes

“All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.”
“I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.”

Source : Source: www.mcall.com
“I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.”
“If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.”

Source : "MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair" by Michael R. Beschloss, (p. 42), 1986.
“This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted.”
“We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.”
“Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.”

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