"Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free."

-- Irving Layton

#Want Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.”
“Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street”
“My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don't know what it was made of. Just going there it's like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It's very stressful.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are.”
“I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.”
“The fact that we don't' talk about it, that we don't have a politics in which this question of war and peace can even get onto the table, so that we can open up our Orwell, our 1984, or Animal Farm, or whatever, and read the political text that's being spotted to us on the television right off of the page; the fact that we don't have a politics robust enough to actually debate whether or not we want to be a country permanently at war. That's what keeps me from sleeping at night.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick, and shut his eyes. Jamie gave a small, nervous laugh. "What?" Mae demanded. "Alan told us that we were supposed to dress as we truly are!" "And you felt that what you truly are is a Christmas tree with too much tinsel." Nick grinned. "Huh.”
“It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.”

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