"The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Acceptance Quotes #Personality Quotes #Interest Quotes

“The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.”
“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
“Beauty without expression is boring.”
“There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.”
“Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.”

Source : Charles Sumner (1849). “The Law of Human Progress: An Oration Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union College, Schenectady. July 25th, 1848”, p.26
“Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.”
“We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.”

Source : "Nearly Every Abrupt Market Downturn Shares This One Characteristic" by John Mauldin, www.businessinsider.com. August 13, 2014.
“Achieving what I set out to do: to feel that I was instrumental in starting a great new movement which could not only change the course of things for Humanity and the rest of Creation, but alter Man's expectation of surviving for much longer on this planet.”

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