"Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation."

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Judith Viorst

#Character Quotes #Positive Thinking Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.”

Source : Edward Conze (1979). “Politics, people and places”
“If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.”

Source : "The Knox Brothers". Book by Penelope Fitzgerald, Ch. IV, 1977.
“Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern magic really is, and that meaning alone is now assignable to the term.”
“Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.”
“A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at once. We must content ourselves with tracking it down, enveloped in considerable darkness, which leads us to make new mistakes and errors. By diligent examination, we may at length little by little peel off the thickest layers, but we seldom get the core quite free, so that finally we have to be satisfied with a little incomplete knowledge.”
“I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.”
“I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.”

Source : “Leighton Meester, Zoë Saldana and Amanda Seyfried Cover-Shoot Photo Gallery” by Kimberly A.Daly, www.glamour.com. March 2, 2010.
“Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible”

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