"Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive"

-- Robert M. Pirsig

#Inspirational Quotes #Travel Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.”
“As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects.”
“Keep your brain active. Engage your brain. Your brain is the most fantastic machine ever created, and it needs to be exercised.”
“Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products-in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher-they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table.”
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”

Source : "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations". Book by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1993.
“I think I deserve an apology.”

Source : "Perino Demands Apology After Boxer Calls Out White House for Lying About Cheney’s Global Warming Editing" by Satyam Khanna, thinkprogress.org. July 10, 2008.
“I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.”
“Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements.”

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