"I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death."

-- Beth Gibbons

#Common Quotes #Mystery Quotes #Ends Quotes

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”
“There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.”
“There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.”

Source : "A Survivor of Film Criticism's Heroic Age" by Michael Powell, www.nytimes.com. July 9, 2009.
“Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.”
“I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion'. I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.”
“The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.”
“It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we donâ€™t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.”
“If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.”

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