"Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Vanity Quotes #Care Quotes #Individual Quotes

“I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.”
“In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.”
“Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.”
“Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.”

Source : "How My Mind Writes Poems" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.
“As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.”
“The incarnation of God is a necessity of human nature. If we reap and truly have a Father, we must be able to clasp His feet in our penitence, and to lean on His breast in our weary sorrowfulness.”
“I have an excuse, actually, why I've been drinking so much. I haven't said this out loud yet - this is exciting - I'm drinking for two. Thank you, wow. I mean, just for now. Somebody's being evicted.”
“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”

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