"In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness."

-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom Quotes #Selfishness Quotes #Brooding Quotes

“I do consider myself to be a feminist.”
“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).”
“I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.”
“The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.”
“Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”

Source : Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.233, Macmillan
“A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.”
“NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.”
“Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.”

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