"The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given"

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William Ames

#Mind Quotes #Contentment Quotes #Acquiescence Quotes

“Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.”
“I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure”
“Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.”
“We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.”

Source : Chris Hayes (2012). “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy”, p.222, Crown
“My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.”

Source : Interview with Phillip Yung, earmilk.com.
“I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 974, To S. Austin Allibone, 1922.
“Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.”
“My training was based on concentration, and it's impossible to cheat when you are concentrated”

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