"Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Men Quotes #Animal Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“Holding anxiety as your own enemy, and that it has to go down, diminish it, go away and not happen here is a kind of self-invalidating, interiorly focused process that would get you even more entangled with these processes. Instead, what we're going to need to learn to do is to allow your history to bring into the present thoughts and feelings and memories, and to sort of hold them mindfully and self-compassionately, and then focus on what you do and bring them along for that journey.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.”

Source : Interview with Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1996.
“Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world.”
“I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.”
“Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, donâ€™t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, itâ€™s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around â€“swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything butâ€¦wait.”
“When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.”
“Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.”
“I would never wear fur.”

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