"What destruction have I been blessed by?"

-- A. R. Ammons

#Blessed Quotes #Destruction Quotes

“When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.”

Source : "Barack Obama and America’s Children: Can a Tragedy Refocus a Nation’s Priorities?" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.
“Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby do they attempt to distract the public from pressing domestic matters, serve the overseas interests of U.S. investors, justify gargantuan military budgets, and present themselves as great leaders.”
“Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.”
“But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being, a surrender of our need and ability to give and receive. Lust does not come with open hands, certainly not with an open heart. It comes only with open legs.”

Source : Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.128, University of Notre Dame Pess
“The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.”
“I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money”
“Woman submits to her fate; man makes his”

Source : Emile Gaboriau (2017). “Other People's Money”, p.135, Jovian Press
“Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.”

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