"Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed."

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Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

Ariel Durant

#Trying Quotes #Fool Quotes #Pages Quotes

“I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.”

Source : "North Korea’s Latest Alarming Nuclear Test Is Part of Its Apocalyptic “Final Victory” Strategy" by Isaac Chotiner, www.slate.com. January 6, 2016.
“If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.”
“Send the haters all my love. X and O.”
“Acting is pretending to be someone else.”
“Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.”
“Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.”
“There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.”
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”

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