"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Thankful Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Appreciation Quotes

“As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.”
“alone, adj. In bad company.”
“You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.”
“No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every aspiration. It makes our character less vigorous. The gospel is not simply a philosophy of religion or law of life, but it is an apocalypse, showing the heavens to our thought, and so bringing its spiritual benedictions to every heart and life.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 347), 1895.
“[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.”
“I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.”
“Those who go along get along.”
“You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life.”

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