"Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived."

-- Pliny the Younger

#Lying Quotes #Fall Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I donâ€™t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isnâ€™t a global 911 to call.”
“I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing -- I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project -- it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.”
“History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.”
“I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.”
“The absence of disease is not health.”
“Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.”
“Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.”
“Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.”

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