"Rest is sweet after strife."

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Source : "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (Part I, Canto VI, Stanza 25), 1860.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

#Sweet Quotes #Strife Quotes

“If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.”
“Perfect Scepticismeis a disease incurable, and a thing rather to be pitied or laughed at, then seriously opposed. For when aman is so fugitive and unsettled that he will not stand to the verdict of his own Faculties, one can no more fasten any thing upon him, than he can write in the water, or tye knots in the wind.”
“The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... they have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.”

Source : "On the Origin of Everything". www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.
“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.51, Random House
“Business people face increasing pressure from local and global competitors. They face customers who have more and more information about alternatives and more and more access to suppliers from all over the world. Given these pressures, business people are looking for approaches that make sense and will continue to make sense. I think many are fed up with management fads that may or may not provide any benefit and don't continue to work over time.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table”
“The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.”
“In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.18

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