"When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever."

-- Alain de Botton

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Forever Quotes

“You are more powerful than you think.”
“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.”
“When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.”
“Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.”

Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books
“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!”
“Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?”
“I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.”
“If Muslims want to take their disputes to religious arbitrators because they genuinely believe that it's a matter of great spiritual importance that they do that, they shouldn't be the only community in this country that's denied the opportunity to do that. Because the Jewish population has been entitled to take their disputes to tribunals known as the Beth Din for over one hundred years, and the Church of England is integrated into the fabric of this country, and there are ecclesiastical tribunals where religious disputes can be dealt with.”

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