"Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins."

-- Matt Haig

#Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes #Veins Quotes

“How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.”
“I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you're mine.”
“They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.1, Jazzybee Verlag
“Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.”
“All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.”
“There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”
“Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”

Source : Erich Gamma (2004). “Entwurfsmuster: Elemente wiederverwendbarer objektorientierter Software”, p.11, Pearson Deutschland GmbH
“Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.”

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