"[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile."

-- William Styron

#War Quotes #Trying Quotes #Events Quotes

“Ron Hubbard was trying to get people out of their body with his HCA courses, but frankly, he was failing badly. When I was a staff member, occasions came up that I was asked to help some member of the graduating class to get a reality on out-of-body experiences...Hubbard would never acknowledge this ability of mine, and after leaving him I did a lot of experimenting.”
“The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.”
“No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.”
“Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.”
“There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.”
“There is nothing like having your hands on a keyboard. Or an acoustic piano. Those are the things you can't really replace.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”

Source : "The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller", www.theeventchronicle.com. March 30, 2017.
“Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.”

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