"We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America."

-- Norman Cousins

#Philosophy Quotes #Mistake Quotes #America Quotes

“I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.”
“One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.”
“It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.”
“[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.”
“In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.”
“You all got only three friends in this world: The Lord God Almighty, the Sears Roebuck catalog and Eugene Talmadge. And you can only vote for one of them”
“The thing about Matt Cameron is he has made us 1000 times a better band than we've ever been. He's such a freight train on drums and such a cool individual as a man that it makes us better as a band, and we are now complete with him.”
“We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.”

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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