"The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't"

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Source : Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.30, Booklassic

Ford Madox Ford

#Honesty Quotes #Years Quotes #World Quotes

“Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.”
“If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.”
“My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.”
“I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.”
“The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.”
“Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.”
“Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and figured out how to utilize their resources to the fullest degree or created pioneering systems in their lives.”

Source : Source: www.afb.org
“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”

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