"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."

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Source : 1949 Letter, 26 Oct.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#Dog Quotes #America Quotes #Friendly Quotes

“What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.”
“To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.”
“I am honored that they would include me in the Cabinet as a member and contributor.”
“That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
“People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.”

Source : Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.232, Shambhala Publications
“The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel”
“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”
“An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.”

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