"People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive."

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Source : Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

Daniel H. Wilson

#Air Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.72
“A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.”
“Writing has never been a driving force within me.”
“A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.”

Source : Henry Beston, Roger B. Swain (2001). “Herbs and the Earth”, p.6, David R. Godine Publisher
“A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.
“Doing actual comedic material is just about the most joyful endeavor ever. That's the truth. The only time it's not funny is when business gets in the way.”

Source : "Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Picture Paris". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.
“A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'”

Source : Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.”

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