"I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are."

-- Ed Gillespie

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.”
“I don't like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they're all about.”
“What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is our most essential food, our most essential wealth. If we consciously receive all this abundance, the universe will pour into us what is called life in Judaism, spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power in Taoism.”
“Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.”
“Peoples attitudes about sex arent healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.”
“Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.”

Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 14, 19,
“But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.”
“Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.”

Source : Grace Aguilar (1853). “Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar”, p.104

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