"We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them."

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Source : "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Fear Quotes #Men Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes”
“You can't applaud a referee.”
“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
“It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.”
“We should not think of poverty eradication as a matter of collecting money and giving it to the poor so much as of reforming the global rules that are disadvantaging the poor and making it impossible for them to fend for themselves.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.”

Source : Joseph Butler (1860). “Analogy of Religion”, p.90
“The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.”
“Whatever you do as an artist, people have to have an experience. It's not about the details or the wrong note or what tuning the piano is. It doesn't matter. It all doesn't matter. It only matters what people think when they leave the room and what their impression was.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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