"I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew."

-- Donald Barthelme

#Believe Quotes #Action Quotes #Arguing Quotes

“...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.”
“Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Sep 14, 2012
“I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.”
“Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.”
“Of course, East Germans had children, they fell in love, and the grass was green and the wind was blowing. It's 40 years. It's a generation. There was a big wave of nostalgia, we call it "Eastalgia," where they said it was not always bad.”
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.”
“Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.”

Source : Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.335, Routledge
“We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.”

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