"In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive."

-- Jonathan Haidt

#Passion Quotes #Men Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.”
“I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.”

Source : "Jennifer Aniston talks tabloids and staying normal in Hollywood". Q&A, www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2014.
“Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.”
“As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.”
“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.”
“When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.”

Source : Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers
“As Gandhi famously responded when asked about "Western civilization," "I wish they had one," the same applies to "international community": "I wish there was one."”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.”

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