"A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change."

-- Eric Weiner

#Confused Quotes #Mind Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.”
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
“Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.”
“The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.”

Source : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.190
“Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.6, Vintage
“I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.”
“We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in my opinion and in probably everyone's opinion, the right books don't get chosen. Still we need books to be chosen even if they are not exactly the right ones, otherwise many people won't know what to read. As a publisher, I feel prizes are important for the publishing business. But as a writer, I think, writers shouldn't get too distracted by prizes because very often they don't go to the right person. You shouldn't take it too seriously if you haven't won a prize.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.”

Source : Laurens Van Der Post (2013). “Feather Fall: An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post”, p.35, Random House

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