"Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground."

-- William James

#Roots Quotes #Islands Quotes #Sea Quotes

“You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.”
“I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.”
“You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.”
“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”
“I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.”

Source : Ernest Shackleton (2004). “South: The Endurance Expedition”, p.149, Penguin
“Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was also instrumental in the collapse of the economy in Greece that started the 'euro panic' that later engulfed Ireland.”
“The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.”
“I've never been fired in my life.”

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