"It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is."

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Source : George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

George Will

#Positive Thinking Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.”

Source : "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.
“Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.”
“For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.”
“Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.”
“Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.”
“Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.”
“I firmly believe that the inequity [in society] is enormous. The people have the feeling that you are allowed to do anything if you are rich. But if you're poor, you have to pay. We [Europeans] have to counter this.”
“As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the first three years of life.... Consequently, mothers actually have more to do with producing a predisposition toward homosexuality than fathers. Two kinds of mothers are particularly harmful - smother mothers and dominating mothers.”

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