"Uniqueness is the commodity of glut."

-- Matt Ridley

#Commodity Quotes #Uniqueness Quotes

“No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VII, The Revision Of The Text, p. 86, 1949.
“The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.”
“There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.”
“I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.”
“Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.”
“When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.”
“But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.”
“In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.”

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

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