"The fundamental basis of this nationâ€™s laws was given to Moses on the Mountâ€¦If we donâ€™t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State."

-- Harry S. Truman

#Believe Quotes #Law Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.”
“It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.”
“We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.”
“By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.”
“most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.”

Source : Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.13, Pan Macmillan
“I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.”
“We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.”
“The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.”

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