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Charles Buck
"Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous."
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Source : Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.44
Charles Buck
#Awful Quotes
#Eternity Quotes
#Consideration Quotes
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“The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.”
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“My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.”
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“Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit? Then start by proclaiming, "This is what I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I'm going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!”
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“I don't go to galleries every day because it's so rare that I like what I see. There's a lot of bad art out there and a lot of it is because art has found its way into the university, where it probably shouldn't be.”
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“I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.”
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“A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.”
Source : "To Live Forever". "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter XVI, section 3), 1956.
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“The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.”
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“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.”
