"I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant."

-- John Banville

#Self Quotes #Arrogant Quotes #Impatient Quotes

“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
“No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.”
“I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.”
“Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government”
“You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.”

Source : Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople
“A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.”
“Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...”
“We're on a collision course for disaster. All we can do, all your viewers can do is brace for impactBuy gold. Buy silver Get as far away as you can from U.S. currency and the U.S. economy.”

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