"We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories."

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Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Gottschall

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“The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.”

Source : Phil McGraw (2013). “Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family”, p.273, Simon and Schuster
“Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.”
“Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the 12th century, and in the Mohammedan world after the 15th century.”

Source : Joseph McCabe “Great Ideas Made Simple”
“He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.”
“I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.”
“By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.”
“A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.”
“A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.”

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