"I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms."

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Lauren Groff

#Desire Quotes #Intense Quotes #Better Life Quotes

“It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.”

Source : "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.
“I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.”

Source : "Lance Bass of *NSYNC Reveals He's Gay". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2006.
“A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.”
“There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'”
“If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.”

Source : Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.43, Routledge
“This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.”
“There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.”
“Thereâ€™s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, Iâ€™m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I donâ€™tÂ wantÂ to be skinny. Iâ€™m constantly in a state of self-improvement but I donâ€™t beat myself up over it.”

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