"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness."

-- Karl Marx

#Men Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Social Quotes

“The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.”
“The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.”

Source : Colin Wilson (1988). “The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders”
“When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'”

Source : "Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim" by Matt Sloane, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.
“The greatest victory anyone can taste is the daily challenge to outrun those fears that you vanquished... days, weeks, months past.”
“Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.”
“So much in TV today, you don't get to feel empathetic for the villain. The villains are the villains and the heroes are the heroes. It's very black and white.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com
“Time is a currency you can only spend once.”
“No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.”

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