"If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal."

-- Felix Dennis

#Luck Quotes #Influence Quotes #Delusion Quotes

“I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.”

Source : Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.
“Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.”
“The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it like a chain. Teachers can't incorporate that. They don't have time; it's not their fault. They don't have the resources to give personal attention to each kid in the classroom.”
“The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.”
“Our lives can change with every breath we take.”

Source : "Fictional character: Novalee Nation". "Where the Heart Is", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.”

Source : "What We Live by". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 238, 1932.
“Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.”
“Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point”

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