"Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work."

-- Michael Nesmith

#Past Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.”
“The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.”
“if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”
“Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.”
“The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.”
“Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all arranged!”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.”

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