"The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are."

-- Bruce Barton

#Important Quotes #Starting Quotes

“The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but theyâ€™re still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. Thatâ€™s bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.”

Source : "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.
“For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
“I'm very competitive but in a very nice way”
“Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were”
“[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.”
“Violence is a calm that disturbs you.”
“Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.”

Source : "From the archive, 7 October, 1977: The loneliness of the Nobel poet" by Ernesto Mendoza, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.
“My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.”

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