"Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation."

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Source : Rebecca L. Walkowitz (2012). “Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation”, p.145, Columbia University Press

Rebecca L. Walkowitz

#Advice Quotes #Good Advice Quotes #Interpretation Quotes

“Iâ€™ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient.”
“I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.”
“There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.”
“Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.”
“I study history because I am interested in the future.”
“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.”
“The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.”
“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”

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