"The winner of the first point is the loser of the last."

-- Michael Stean

#Lasts Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Loser Quotes

“I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me,”
“Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.164, Vintage
“Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.”

Source : "Google isn't making us dumb - or smart. That's the problem" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2009.
“The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights, and provide for certain common needs ... A state on the other hand, is a coercive organization asserting or enjoying a monopoly over the use of physical force in some geographic area and exercising power over its subjects.”

Source : David Boaz (1997). “Libertarianism: A Primer”, p.208, Simon and Schuster
“My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can, and that certainly will live on.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.”
“Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.”

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