"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Anxiety Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Unnecessary Quotes

“I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.”
“U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.”
“Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.”
“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.”
“We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.”
“I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.”
“The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...”
“humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.”

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