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  • When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes
  • For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Brookner Quotes , New York Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Caring Quotes , Thinking Quotes