"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."

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Moon Unit Zappa

#Jobs Quotes #Accidents Quotes

“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.”
“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, weâ€™ve lost our connection to ourselves.”
“Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.647, Everyman's Library
“Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?”
“For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.69, Penguin
“I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.”
“Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.”

Source : Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.34, Courier Corporation
“"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"”

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