"Cynicism is no more mature than naÃ¯vetÃ©. You're no more mature, just more burned."

-- Karl Marlantes

#Vets Quotes #Mature Quotes #Cynicism Quotes

“Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won.”

Source : "William Wallace: Guardian of Scotland". Book by Sir James Fergusson, p. 4, 1948.
“Look inside, without anyone else's validation understand that you are valuable, talented, unique, and worthy.”
“I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.”
“When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.”
“Now narcolepsy is really hard though because they're very tired during the day, they're sleepy during the day and it's managed mostly with medications. So we use medications to help them sleep better at night and to stay away during the day. But there are behavioral things you can do also by changing diet, exercise, having an actual nap schedule.”
“I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.”

Source : "Lipstick Jihad: An Interview With Azadeh Moaveni". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 9, 2005.
“...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.”
“I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.”

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