"Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!"

-- Robert E. Lee

#4th Of July Quotes #Son Quotes #Abandon Quotes

“For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.”

Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,
“Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.”
“I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.”

Source : Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.2, Crown Archetype
“So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.”

Source : Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.151, Random House
“Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans!”
“As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.”
“I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.”
“I dont like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.”

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