"It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good."

-- Josh Billings

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“The history of English is full of that, lots of things done with good intentions that 200 years down the road have resulted in a giant mess, where someone's pet peeves - like John Dryden and his hatred of terminal prepositions - could become real standards.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“If I had feelings, I probably wouldnâ€™t have even survived.”
“I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.”

Source : "Misty Copeland, Chelsea Clinton, and other successful people share the advice they'd give their younger selves" by Elisa Jackson and Levo League, www.businessinsider.com. September 27, 2015.
“In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.”
“No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.”

Source : Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.”
“What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.”
“In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.”

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