"The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone."

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Joseph Addison

#Lying Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Heavy Quotes

“Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.”
“Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.”
“It is alone that part of the external universe which we call material which acts on man through his senses - that part of which we ordinarily feel our knowledge to be the surest; but in reality, strangely enough, as will soon appear, this is one of the aspects of the external world, of which we can know nothing.”

Source : "Man's Moral Nature" by Richard Maurice Bucke, (Ch. 1), 1879.
“The blues arenâ€™t pessimistic. Weâ€™re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.”
“The Beatles defined their own sense of values and honor. They took stances without ever being politically correct. And they did it all with incredible humor... I honestly think that there are certain things in life that help people understand themselves. I think the Beatles are one of those things. They resonate the journey of true selfhood, really.”
“I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.”
“If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.”
“The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all."”

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