"I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading."

-- Lorin Stein

#Reading Quotes #People Quotes #Should Quotes

“I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.”
“You can never learn anything that you did not already know”
“I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.”
“Nature actually works through intense cooperation. There is competition in nature , but it thrives through cooperation. We don't teach this to our kids. It's actually a violent ideology. It's why kids go into school and bully each other and god forbid do things even worse. Cooperation will become the marching orders of the human species or we're not going to make it.”
“The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.”
“nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them ...”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.”
“Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bishop Robert Barron from Jul 22, 2014

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