"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

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Victor Hugo

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“It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”
“Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense.”
“Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good.”
“Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling?”
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
“I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.”
“Sharing laughter is a way of casting delight to the wind so it blows everywhere and to everyone.”

Source : Paul Pearsall (1996). “The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, to Work, to Play-- Life in the Balance”, p.177, Hunter House
“The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.”

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