"While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin."

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Source : Susanna Rowson (1991). “Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple”, p.44, Penguin

Susanna Rowson

#Ruins Quotes #Discretion Quotes #Ambivalence Quotes

“Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.”
“Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money.”
“I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.”
“Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.”
“I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.”

Source : Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”
“Do not become the slave of your model.”
“Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.”
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”

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