"Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money."

-- Erik Reece

#Mountain Quotes #World Quotes #Sin Quotes

“If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don`t actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.”
“It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.”
“Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.”

Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.229, Penguin
“Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its heel right now." "I have lunch at my desk," Min began, and thought,Oh, for crying out loud, could I beany more pathetic ? "Emilio is experimenting with a lunch menu. He needs you. I need you.”
“Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (1989). “Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959”, Gateway Books
“No one questioned "who is a Serb, who is a Croat, who is a Muslim (Bosniak)" we were all one people, that's how it was back then, and I still think it is that way today.”
“It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!”

Source : Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books
“I do not drink more than a sponge.”

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