"Pondering is, in my feeling, a form of prayer."

-- Marion G. Romney

#Prayer Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Form Quotes

“It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.”
“The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the level of job control, indicating that the spike during work hours was specifically caused by lack of choice on the job. People with little control over their work also experienced more back pain, missed more days of work due to illness in general, and had higher rates of mental illness-the human equivalent of stereotypies, resulting in the decreased quality of life common to animals reared in captivity.”
“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”
“Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.”
“We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.”
“The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.”
“A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.”

Source : James Geary (2011). “I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World”, p.8, Harper Collins
“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

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