"The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition."

-- Gustav Stresemann

#Errors Quotes #Victory Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor, cannot be concentrated while ownership of the non-human factor, capital, can be.”
“The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender”

Source : Supers and Supermen "Some Critics" (1920)
“Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.”
“We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.”
“A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.”
“If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.”
“A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.”
“A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.”

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