"I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we donâ€™t answer the telephone, we donâ€™t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything"

-- John C. Lilly

#Believe Quotes #Needs Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.”

Source : Henri Pirenne (2012). “Mohammed and Charlemagne”, p.284, Courier Corporation
“Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.”
“Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.”
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
“Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.”
“I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.”
“Because we havenâ€™t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we donâ€™t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure. Instead, we cling to our To Do lists and sacrifice our health and well-being for the sake of others. Then, when we feel deprived of our basic human need for relaxation and enjoyment, we turn to food as our sole source of pleasure. When we then try to deprive ourselves of food through dieting, we deny the last bit of pleasure we have in our lives. And that strategy never works!”
“The more able we are to keep guns out the hand so criminals and spouse abusers all - the better. So the more information we have the better for law enforcement perspective.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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