"The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone."

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Source : Elliot Aronson (2011). “CourseSmart International E-Book for The Social Animal”, p.257, Palgrave Macmillan

Elliot Aronson

#Mind Quotes #Victory Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I felt sick. Buying Kistenâ€™s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and Iâ€™d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.”
“I'm a comedian, not a politician.”
“Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own profits and not the wellbeing of the animals they're slaughtering, or the land and the water they're using or abusing, or the workforce they're exploiting or even the people eating it.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.”
“Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.”
“As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.”
“When we decide to embark in the service of God, great things begin to happen in our life and the lives of people around us. We learn of Him. We come unto Him.”
“I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.”

Source : "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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