Rick Bayan Quotes

#1. I want to lose all harshness of jagged nerves, to be above all gentle. I feel we have achieved victory for that almost more than anything-to be able to cultivate gentleness.
George Malory to his wife Ruth at the end of the Great War

Wade Davis

#2. I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

Mitch Leigh

#3. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 8. But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All

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#4. The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

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#5. No matter how badly you push it away and ignore it, the pain of loss never really goes away.

Karina Halle

#6. REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

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#7. POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.

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#8. Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

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#9. To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Virginia Woolf

#10. It's not about finding out who you are, it's about creating who you are.

Shay Carl

#11. Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

Susan Hill

#12. Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

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#13. Hope brings light into dark places.

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#14. Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.

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#15. Fitness is like marriage, you can't cheat and expect it to work.

Anonymous

#16. Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

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#17. We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

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#18. The drawers in my mind are rattling to break open. Memories. Theories. Whispers and sensations. I shove them off a cliff.

Tahereh Mafi

#19. Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

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#20. I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

David Mermin

#21. The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

John Dewey

#22. Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.

Umar

#23. Our system requires a continuous supply of highly capable people who are so disgruntled with their jobs that they are willing to chew off their own arms to escape their bosses.

Scott Adams

#24. CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

Rick Bayan