"We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them."

-- Albert Wohlstetter

#Want Quotes #Possibility Quotes #Contemplating Quotes

“Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.”
“And I know it's over, but it's the same way I felt when you broke up with me.”
“Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.”

Source : Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.81, Picador
“Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?”
“There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.”
“I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.”
“I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.”
“In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack of love and compassion. Of these two, the second type needs to be considered first because if we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.”

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