"After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?"

-- Robert Dale Owen

#Past Quotes #Roots Quotes #People Quotes

“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
“Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.”

Source : Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.499, Transaction Publishers
“I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.”
“The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.”

Source : Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”
“If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.”
“All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.”
“People don't choose or own cats. Cats choose the people they want to own.”
“I think the experience of depression that I most think remains true throughout the years is it's very isolating. That to me is its strongest quality. That you're alone in a room, that you're cut off, you're just sort of stuck with it. It puts up a wall.”

Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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