"Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Kindness Quotes #Blow Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.168, Courier Corporation
“America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.”
“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that!”
“Suddenly youâ€™re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god youâ€™re alive and its spectacular.”
“Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.”
“The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.”
“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”
“Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.”

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