"Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake."

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Edward Dahlberg

#Mistake Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Decision Quotes

“It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.”
“You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work.”

Source : Michael Port (2006). “Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling”, p.94, John Wiley & Sons
“the excess of all good things is mischievous.”
“In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.”
“According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to mass misery, mass impoverishment, and human slaughter. That's what it means. Yet almost half of the young think it's benign.”
“There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.”
“It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books ...”

Source : Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.187, Routledge
“For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.”

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