"Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral."

-- Frans de Waal

#Peaceful Quotes #Bipolar Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.”

Source : James E. Talmage (2012). “Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, p.69, Lulu.com
“Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits.”
“My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.”
“I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.”

Source : Interview with Marc Blau, 2004.
“Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Itâ€™s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasnâ€™t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When youâ€™re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.”
“You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.”
“Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.”

Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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