"The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process."

-- Alan Dershowitz

#Struggle Quotes #Morality Quotes #Process Quotes

“I think one of the things we learned from the physicists and also the theoretical biologists is the idea that when you're dealing with very complex systems you're going to get a large variety of behavior which can be interpreted as hill climbing, but hill climbing with a lot of modifications, hill climbing with big jumps occasionally.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.”
“I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.”
“I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.”
“Iâ€™m going to carry you now,â€ he told her, â€œso we can move even faster. Iâ€™m not asking you, Iâ€™m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.”
“When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.”
“As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.”

Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS
“I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.”

Source : "Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. September, 1997.

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