"We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity."

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Source : Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

Herbert Hoover

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Modern Life Quotes

“How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.”
“I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as though it is thrust upon someone who had little real hope of avoiding it. However tragic that reality, the simple fact remains that it is more important to protect the rest of society for as long as it remains a danger to them.”
“Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.”
“I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.”
“There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say”

Source : ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”
“My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.”
“In truth a clear-headed physicalist shouldn't be thinking any of these dualist thoughts. If pains are one and the same as C-fibres firing, then there really isn't any possibility of having 'one' without the 'other'. Once you properly appreciates physicalism, this dissociation should cease to appear possible - C-fibres with pains should strike you as no more possible than squares without rectangles.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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