"As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. Itâ€™s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination."

-- Scott Lynch

#Decision Quotes #Maps Quotes #Biographies Quotes

“Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.88, Courier Corporation
“There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.”
“Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.”
“Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.”
“To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.”
“I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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