"A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost."

-- Publilius Syrus

#Opportunity Quotes #Lost Quotes #Lost Opportunity Quotes

“You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.”
“An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.”

Source : "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.
“A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.”
“Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.”

Source : Song: Wasteland of the Free, Album: The Way I Should
“A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.”

Source : Referring to the Jacobin, in 'New Morality' (1821) l. 113.
“In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and purchasing. The closed network of a printed book, on the other hand, seems to offer greater serenity. It harks back to a pre-jacked-in age. Cloth, paper, ink: For these read helmet, cuirass, shield. They afford a degree of protection and make possible a less intermediated, less fractured experience. They guard our aloneness. That is why I love them, and why I read printed books still.”
“My philosophy on running is, I don't dwell on it, I do it.”
“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

Source : "Shackleton". Book by Roland Huntford, 2013.

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