"The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature."

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Source : Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

Margot Asquith

#Suffering Quotes #Human Nature Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.”

Source : "Warnock - mad as chips" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2002.
“Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don't. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It's mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel.”
“Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.”
“A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.”
“We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the Bible. The Word of God is being rewritten, watered down, illustrated, and dramatized in order to cater to the taste of the carnal mind. That only leads further into the wilderness of doubt and confusion.”
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”

Source : "Gift from the Sea". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Chapter 2, 1955.
“I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.”
“"Hypercoherence" is one of the most dangerous threats to the long-term survival of our civilization. Hypercoherence is the close efficient linkage of all parts of the world economic, communication and transport systems. It has been crucial in the spread of great innovations, the rise of world wealth, and even the dissemination of democratic concepts and ethical values and the defeat of oppressive regimes.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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