"Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy."

-- Natalie Angier

#Light Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Do we know what we look like? Not really.”
“Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.”
“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
“I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.”
“In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a wonderful person. And for some reason two good people couldnt make a good thing work. But in life, the one thing that I love about being an artist is that you can sometimes use the pain that you go through to make beautiful things.”
“A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.”

Source : Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.429
“People die... Beauty fades... Love changes... And you will always be alone.”
“While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”

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