"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."

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Source : Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.134, Transaction Publishers

Ruth Benedict

#Answers Quotes #Aging Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.”
“The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.”
“I try to make each film a different film.”
“As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.”
“If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 12, 2016
“I'll never forget my friends and where I came from.”
“The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?”
“Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.”

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