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America QUOTES

America QUOTES

1 " Sunday’s for sleepin’ in and big family dinners and fixin’ tractors and takin long walks,” Ma said. “That’s enough religion for me. "

― Mike Bond , America

2 " Americans had become other-directed, living in a desert of suburban superficiality, driven more by their peers’ values than their own. "

― Mike Bond , America

3 " the striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man. "

― Mike Bond , America

4 " To live as most people seemed to – blindly accepting life without trying to understand and live it in the wisest and most responsible fashion – was insane, the squandering of a unique and priceless gift. "

― Mike Bond , America

5 " To live well in the now you have to think sometimes about the future. We always live in what we’ve already made. "

― Mike Bond , America

6 " For those who think,” he quoted Walpole, “life is a comedy. For those who feel, it’s a tragedy. So it’s better to think than feel, no? "

― Mike Bond , America

7 " It was true you had to focus on every tiny note and the spaces between them but you also had to let your mind free like the bird rising into the blue heavens and white clouds, and if she could see the bird yet also listen to each tiny step between the notes then the music flowed and she felt proud and emptied and full at the same time. "

― Mike Bond , America

8 " Democracy is not possible under Islam. Islam means I surrender; the Koran does not allow independent thought. "

― Mike Bond , America

9 " But it’s really hard, he wrote Dad. This cult of blind obedience – I can see it in warfare, maybe, but not for learning? What are we learning? Not to think for ourselves? That’s what they’re inculcating and I’m not sure it’s good. And there’s too much pride in it, in this blindness – “I can be a better automaton than you” – Pride of the enslaved who will one day be enslavers. "

― Mike Bond , America