"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious."

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Jacques Maritain

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Serious Quotes

“I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am.”
“Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.”

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“It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.”
“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”
“I was not prepared to live as a single parent.”
“A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.”
“It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.”
“It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.”

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