"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

-- Andrew Johnson

#Patriotic Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I donâ€™t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the groundâ€”asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.”
“I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.”
“The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.”
“The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.”

Source : "Britain to be 'swamped' by millions of immigrants" by Richard Spillett, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 24, 2012.
“Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be.”

Source : "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.
“The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
“Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.”

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