"Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes."

-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Attitude Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.”
“Baeyer-a chemist who was more of an encyclopedist than a researcher.”

Source : Richard Willstätter (1965). “From My Life”
“By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.”
“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.”
“I dont know if hell exists, but there sure as hell are some people who dont belong in heaven.”
“I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.”
“It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.”

Source : Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
“I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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