"And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves."

-- David Dark

#Humility Quotes #Might Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012
“Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.”
“Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.”
“The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.”

Source : "Stephan Pastis: When I was a lawyer I was drawing all the time, even in court". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2014.
“Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.”
“It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.”

Source : "The Story of Man: From the First Human to Primitive Culture and Beyond". Book by Carleton S. Coon, 1954.

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