"I don't have a very logical and orderly mind."

-- Richard Ford

#Mind Quotes #Logical Quotes

“In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others, and to oppose your opinion to theirs, do it with so much mildness and tact, as not to appear to do violence to their mind, for nothing is ever gained by taking up things with excessive warmth and hastiness.”
“He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.”
“I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.”

Source : Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Avenue of the Dead”, p.50, Open Road Media
“The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin
“More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.”
“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.”
“There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.”

Source : "Collections of the New-York Historical Society" by I. Riley, 1821.
“My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.”

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