"However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution."

-- Steven Pinker

#Class Quotes #Want Quotes #Might Quotes

“I've had the opportunity to play the drug dealer who gets gang-raped, and I'm like, "For what reason? Doing it just to do it? To just show people that I can be sexy or dark?" I don't want to do something just to make that point. It needs to happen organically, and I'm really confident it will. I'm a pretty patient person, and I'll wait until we find the right stuff.”
“Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.”
“It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.”
“I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.”
“The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.”
“You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.”

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