"Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well."

-- W. J. T. Mitchell

#Thinking Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“A gush of bird song, a patter of dew A cloud and a rainbow's warning; Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning!”

Source : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1882). “Poems”
“My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“Academia is a graveyard of poets.”
“You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.”
“To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.”
“More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.”
“We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.”
“Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.”

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