"One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking."

-- Julian Baggini

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.”

Source : Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”
“If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.”
“Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.”
“I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.”
“When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.”
“Make the iron hot by striking it.”
“There's nothing quite like a World Cup.”
“In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.”

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