"We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past."

-- Arnold J. Toynbee

#Freedom Quotes #Believe Quotes #Past Quotes

“The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.42, Columbia University Press
“A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.”
“It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.”
“Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.”
“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”
“I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.”
“When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.”
“She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.”

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