"Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable."

-- Michael Morpurgo

#Admitting Quotes #Cleansing Quotes

“Nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of lowering the temperature on anything - I don't think.”

Source : "Young Republican Roundtable: Shifting Views After Election Of Donald Trump". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. November 13, 2016.
“God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut”
“An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.”
“There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.”
“Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?”
“For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.”
“Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.30, Penguin
“What I was being told in my 20s in the close-quartered, male-ego-infused work space, was that I had to stop reacting with my emotions to sexual desire towards me. The change, in other words, had to be made in me.”

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