"This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much."

-- Byron Dorgan

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Debate Quotes

“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!”

Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.
“Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.”

Source : Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
“Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.”
“The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.”

Source : John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)
“As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.”
“It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”
“I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.”
“There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.”

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