"When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece."

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Source : Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”

Clarence Day

#Police Quotes #Legacy Quotes #Eras Quotes

“Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits”
“I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.”
“I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.”
“As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined.”
“There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.”

Source : "The Reluctant Transgender Role Model". Interview with Cintra Wilson, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 2011.
“When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.”
“Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2010). “Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation”, p.6, Bantam
“Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.”

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