"It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent."

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Pierre Charron

#Passion Quotes #May Quotes #Decline Quotes

“To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.”
“If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.”

Source : "No Longer a Soldier, Shinseki Has a New Mission". Article by James Dao, Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2009.
“Macro worries are like sports talk radio. Everyone has a good opinion which probably means that none of them are good.”
“you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.”
“To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.”
“I feel like everything I make is personal to me.”
“No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder (1995). “Words from a Fearless Heart: A Collection of Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
“Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.”

Source : "Obama's Big Screen Test". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2007.

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