"It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself."

-- Mary Travers

#World Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
“Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
“The spirits run riot in youth.”
“It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. being a mother and wife comes first and I just can not uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.”
“When you work really hard, and it's organic and together, you can have more fun.”
“I don't direct movies for a living.”
“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
“The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.”

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