"[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men."

-- Hesketh Pearson

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“My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.”
“It is very important what not to do.”
“I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.”
“Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.”
“People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
“My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.”
“In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.”

Source : Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm (2010). “Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance”, p.17, Penguin
“As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2009). “Oroonoko and Other Writings”, p.75, Oxford Paperbacks

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