"All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history."

-- Arthur Bryant

#Race Quotes #People Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.”
“Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.”
“Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.”
“Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.”
“All my movies are achingly personal.”
“You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.”
“Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?”
“If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1914). “The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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