Gerona Ave Quotes & Sayings

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom. — B.F. Skinner

Misery leads to crime. I saw so many boys whipped it ruined my mind. — Albert Fish

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it. — Dan Barber

2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA. — Narendra Modi

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory. — Karen Russell

Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second. — Jonathan Haidt

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds. — Thomas Sankara

There was no darkness so profound as the simple daylight they left me in, nor any noise so soul-cracking as the silence left when they departed. — Various

Perhaps the most widely accepted and damaging element of dietary Conventional Wisdom is that grains are healthy - the "staff of life" - as we've been led to believe our entire lives. — Mark Sisson

The logic of supernatural horror [is] a logic founded on fear, a logic whose sole principle states: "Existence equals nightmare." Unless life is a dream, nothing makes sense. For as a reality, it is a rank failure.. — Thomas Ligotti

Testing the theory that we have an innate moral sense as proposed by such Enlightenment thinkers as Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson, Bloom provides experimental evidence that "our natural endowments" include "a moral sense - some capacity to distinguish between kind and cruel actions; empathy and compassion - suffering at the pain of those around us and the wish to make this pain go away; a rudimentary sense of fairness - a tendency to favor equal divisions of resources; a rudimentary sense of justice - a desire to see good actions rewarded and bad actions punished. — Michael Shermer

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature. — Sydney Smith