"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourselfâ€”your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.”
“Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011
“Iâ€™ll never die", he said. Before I could protest, Lucas put two fingers on my lips, his smile seemed to fill the room with lights and I realized he was telling a deeper kind of truth then Iâ€™d ever known before â€œYouâ€™ll live forever and being remembered by you is the only immortality Iâ€™ll ever need if I only live on as a part of you â€“ Bianca, thatâ€™s my idea of heaven”
“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”
“With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.”

Source : Dan Ariely (2013). “The Irrational Bundle”, p.43, HarperCollins UK
“After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.”
“My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises.”

Source : Graham Stuart Thomas (1984). “The art of planting, or, The planter's handbook”, David R Godine Pub
“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced â€“ even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”

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