"Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it."

-- G. Bruce Boyer

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“Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.”
“The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.”
“Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.”
“But an apology too â€” you think youâ€™re giving something, but youâ€™re not. Youâ€™re really asking for something. Youâ€™re asking for forgiveness, youâ€™re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.”
“I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.”
“I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (2009). “The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.2, Sheridan House, Inc.
“Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”

Source : Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
“Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but thatâ€™s the dealioâ€”youâ€™re a train and Iâ€™m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.”

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