"We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us."

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Source : James Ramsey Ullman (1951). “River of the Sun”

James Ramsey Ullman

#Civilization Quotes #Impulse Quotes

“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”
“It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.”
“For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.”
“Whenever you think you can or think you canâ€™t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)”
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Source : Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand
“It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (1972). “Christianity at Glacier”
“But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.”
“There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.”

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