"Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie."

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Source : Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.231, Penguin

Eugene Linden

#Lying Quotes #Self Quotes #Years Quotes

“I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.”
“In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.”

Source : Francis Turner Palgrave (1871). “Lyrical Poems”, p.75
“I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!”
“There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.”

Source : Charles Robert Maturin (2016). “Melmoth the Wanderer”, p.321, Charles Robert Maturin
“Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.”
“So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.”

Source : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1676). “The Vanity of Arts and Sciences”, p.109
“Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.”
“There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.”

Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

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