Provincies Nederland Quotes & Sayings

Behavioral genetics confirms that aggressive tendencies can be inherited, and that gives natural selection material to work with in shifting the average violent tendencies of a population. — Steven Pinker

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born. — Oriana Fallaci

The sixth sense will empower your instinct endlessly if it understands the feelings. Thus the seventh sense is used to help the sixth sense in working effectively. — Stephen Richards

All that is mere
rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance
and terror) is in the person who admits there can be angels but
denies there can be devils. The superstition is in the person who
admits there can be devils but denies there can be diabolists. — G.K. Chesterton

I am going to meet everyone, including the KLA, to find out what they think. — Ibrahim Rugova

And always, everywhere, there would be the yelling or quietly authoritative hypnotists; and in the train of the ruling suggestion givers, always everywhere, the tribes of buffoons and hucksters, the professional liars, the purveyors of entertaining irrelevances. Conditioned from the cradle, unceasingly distracted, mesmerized systematically, their uniformed victims would go on obediently marching and countermarching, go on, always and everywhere, killing and dying with the perfect docility of trained poodles. And yet in spite of the entirely justified refusal to take yes for an answer, the fact remained and would remain always, remain everywhere - the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion — Aldous Huxley

Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option ... they will become a necessity. — Fujio Cho

You will always make the most profit from 20% of your goods and services. These goods and services will be purchased by the top 20% of your clients or customers. This principle doesn't fail, and you can extrapolate that throughout all areas of your business and profit-making, and you will find the same. — Ellis Howell

My nose never lies," he boasted. "I can smell defiance, I can smell pride, I can smell disobedience. I catch a whiff of any such stinks, you'll answer for it. When I sniff you, all I want to smell is fear — George R R Martin

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism. — Frederick Lenz

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. — Max Weber

I wonder what Lena is doing now. I always wonder what Lena is doing. Rachel, too: both my girls, my beautiful, big-eyed girls. But I worry about Rachel less. Rachel was always harder than Lena, somehow. More defiant, more stubborn, less feeling . Even as a girl, she frightened me - fierce and fiery-eyed, with a temper like my father's once was.
But Lena . . . little darling Lena, with her tangle of dark hair and her flushed, chubby cheeks. She used to rescue spiders from the pavement to keep them from getting squashed; quiet, thoughtful Lena, with the sweetest lisp to break your heart. To break my heart: my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart. I wonder whether her front teeth still overlap; whether she still confuses the words pretzel and pencil occasionally; whether the wispy brown hair grew straight and long, or began to curl.
I wonder whether she believes the lies they told her. — Lauren Oliver

We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us. — Terence McKenna

I am not arrogant to claim that I can achieve the impossible, but I am not ignorant enough not to try to — Shane Porteous