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After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?"I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me."What?"That No is a better word than Yes," he replied. Flann O'Brien
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. Frank Lloyd Wright
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corportists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair. John Ralston Saul
Nick Hornby quote: "One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than..."
One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect. Nick Hornby
For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland. John Steinbeck
...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years. Michael Herr
Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude--they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race. Herb Elliott
Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard than they had on the day it happened. Donna Tartt
Francoise Sagan quote: "To , nothing is more frightful than laughter."
To , nothing is more frightful than laughter. Francoise Sagan
Dorothea Lange quote: "It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer..."
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. Dorothea Lange
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? George Orwell
Alain de Botton quote: "Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile..."
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. Alain de Botton
William Shakespeare quote: "I am in blood. Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,..."
I am in blood. Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. William Shakespeare
But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read. C. S. Lewis
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. Thomas Edison

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