"We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse."

-- James Surowiecki

#People Quotes #Assuming Quotes #Looking Good Quotes

“I intend that I am learning from my experiences so that I am only repeating the ones that bring me happiness.”

Source : Tony Burroughs (2012). “Get What You Want: The Art of Making and Manifesting Your Intentions”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
“And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.”
“Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”
“And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and his 'topknot' was missing (a 'topknot' is on the top of a dragon's head and looks a bit like a shark's fin) but I bought him in an instant.”
“I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.”
“I have no political aspirations. Thats it.”
“The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise -- then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish.”

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