"If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right."

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Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1965). “Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)”, p.61, University of Pennsylvania Press

Francesco Guicciardini

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“The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.”
“Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.”
“Fear Teaches Us A Lot About Ourselves.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about”

Source : William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.315, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
“It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.”
“Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.”

Source : "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.
“Would you care to walk to the river?â€ -Miles â€œI would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber”
“Sometimes Iâ€™m afraid that Iâ€™m losing myself.”

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