"The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century."

-- Steve Coogan

#Attitude Quotes #Morality Quotes #Creation Quotes

“I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.”
“There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.”
“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”

Source : Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)
“Been working and working But I still got so terribly far to go.”
“That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”
“When youâ€™re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if youâ€™re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, youâ€™re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isnâ€™t failing; itâ€™s getting too comfortable.”
“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

Source : "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.
“He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.”

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