"I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic."

-- Kate Flannery

#Thinking Quotes #Rainy Quotes #Genetics Quotes

“New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.”
“One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response. But when they're dead, when they're no longer suffering, when it's over, it's hard to feel empathetic for the corpse.”
“A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.”

Source : Ambeth R. Ocampo (2001). “Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures”
“The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.”
“[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.”
“Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.”
“Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.”
“The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.”

Source : Wade Davis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2009). “The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world”, House of Anansi Pr

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