"The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island."

-- William Blackstone

#Strength Quotes #Islands Quotes #Navy Quotes

“In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.”
“There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.”
“The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.”
“The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.”
“If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.”

Source : William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.28, Penguin
“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”

Source : "Fictional character: Don Lucchesi". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .”
“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.”

Source : Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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