"Many things are possible. Few things are certain."

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Source : Cybling Interview, February 2001.

Harry Turtledove

#Certain Quotes

“It was probably a mistake to pursue happiness; much better to create happiness; still better to create happiness for others. The more happiness you created for others the more would be yours-a solid satisfaction that no one could ever take away from you.”
“The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment of mindfulness renounces the reflexive, self-protecting response of the mind in favor of clear and balanced understanding. In the light of the wisdom that comes from balanced undertanding, attachment to having things be other than what they ar falls away.”
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 03, 2011
“The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the limitation of port facilities made it impossible to get sufficient supplies to the armies when they approached the German border.”
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”

Source : Henry James (2015). “The Ambassadors”, p.151, Xist Publishing
“My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.”
“My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.”
“What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he exists only on the products of the industrious class; and that he can consume nothing that has not been taken from the producers.”

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