"the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially."

-- Margaret Halsey

#Jobs Quotes #Creative Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.”
“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.”
“You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want to remain a civilian.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.”

Source : Matt Fitzgerald (2007). “Brain Training For Runners: A Revolutionary New Training System to Improve Endurance, Speed, Health, and Res ults”, p.57, Penguin
“Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Laziness is a programmers main virtue.”
“Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?”

Source : Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers
“I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.”

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