"I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is."

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Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Jennifer Niven

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.”
“Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.”
“Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."”
“I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.”
“It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.”

Source : Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press
“The energy of gratitude catapults us into the most profound experiences imaginable.”
“The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope the book helps to do is help people clarify what is amiss, by presenting a critique that is grounded in economics.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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