"We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination."

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Derek Parfit

#Self Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Might Quotes

“Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2013). “The Ashford Affair”, p.249, Macmillan
“I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.”
“The way the electoral college works, the way the states have kind of sorted themselves out in such a way that most states, the conclusion is foregone and there's no reason for the candidate to be there and for that reason, for that same, because of those same dynamics there's no reason for the journalist to be there combing the opinions of voters there because we know that California's gonna vote Democratic.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest.”

Source : "Marijuana Compound Treats Multiple Health Issues" By Chris Kilham, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2011.
“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.”
“I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As my mind tries to settle on it, it flutters away, like ashes caught in a breeze, and I realize that in my life there is a then, a before, though before what I cannot say, and there is a now, and there is nothing between the two but a long, silent emptiness that has led me here, to me and him, in this house.”

Source : S. J. Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
“Around here, we're as happy as God in France.”

Source : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.54, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Stubbornness destroys good advice.”

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