"A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it."

-- Mara Brock Akil

#Personality Quotes #Want Quotes #Staples Quotes

“Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?”
“One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.”
“Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.”
“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.”
“I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.”
“I feel like [terrorism] acts are un-Islamic. So to see that happen and somebody do that in the name of God, it just - and the religion that you practice, it just - it hurts your heart so deeply because it's such a misrepresentation of the faith.”
“People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.”

Source : Jonah Berger (2016). “Contagious: Why Things Catch On”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.”

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