"I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?"

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Source : Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Identity: Jason Bourne Book #1”, p.598, Bantam

Robert Ludlum

#Mean Quotes #Trying Quotes #Hell Quotes

“Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.”

Source : George Combe (1830). “A System of Phrenology”, p.106
“All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.”
“Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.”
“A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.”
“My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris
“Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.”

Source : Paul Reiser (2011). “Couplehood”, p.186, Bantam
“No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?”

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