"To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them."

-- Jean-Francois Regnard

#Able Quotes #Good Things Quotes #Possessing Quotes

“I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].”
“We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.”

Source : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”
“Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.”

Source : Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.258, Pineapple Press Inc
“Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.”
“Expectation is the springboard of achievement.”
“When you think positive, good things happen.”
“So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris
“My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.”

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