"As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success."

-- Henry Adams

#Character Quotes #Mean Quotes #Boys Quotes

“I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.”
“It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.”
“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”
“Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!'”
“I went to college in North Carolina, and that's how I learned how to play music. I learned how to play guitar when I was 12, and I was always in bands, but the first time I ever started writing my own music was being surrounded by a lot of songwriter friends in North Carolina.”
“If you are worrying about tomorrow, you can't possibly enjoy today. Think about it: you can't really give God tomorrow; you can give him only what you have, and today is all you have.”

Source : Tim LaHaye (2014). “Spirit-Controlled Temperament”, p.164, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“As a sovereign state, we should have operational command of our forces returned to us at an appropriate time. Korea and the United States have already reached an agreement where we will receive operational control of our forces when the conditions are met.”
“The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.318, New York Review of Books

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