"In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn."

-- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

#Men Quotes #Smell Quotes #Lamps Quotes

“And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.”
“Love is saying yes to belonging.”

Source : Fritjof Capra, David Steindl-Rast, Thomas Matus (1991). “Belonging to the universe: explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality”, Harper San Francisco
“The good thing about love is nobody can stop you from loving them.”
“Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.”
“Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.”
“Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.”
“The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.”
“We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)”

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