"By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.”
“I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our planet has run out of patience. So has our sense of justice. It is time to step it up - and up - and up - until we reach the only goal that really matters: peace among people and peace between people and nature.”
“It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Camas, www.epicurious.com.
“Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.”
“You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.”
“People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.”
“And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.”

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