"He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition."

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Charles Lamb

#Perfection Quotes #Mixtures Quotes #Matter Quotes

“When you see a good move, look for a better one.”
“My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.”
“You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?'”

Source : "Man and Uber man" by Kara Swisher, www.vanityfair.com. December 2014.
“The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.”
“A staff can be no better than the man it serves.”

Source : David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.228, Modern Library
“Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.”
“I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable.”
“One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. Godâ€™s experiments always succeed”

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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