"A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.”
“I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.”
“The greatest motivator and leveler in my life has been my yoga practice. It has taught me how to be a grown-up, follow through, give back, be compassionate, be a better mother, wife, daughter, sibling, friend, and just show up.”
“American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.”
“The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.”
“Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.”

Source : Machado de Assis (1963). “The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories”, p.113, Univ of California Press
“It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.”
“Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market”

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