"Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant."

-- Joseph Addison

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“If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life livable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society.”

Source : Eric Felten (2011). “Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.”
“The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.”
“Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.”
“I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.”
“Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.”
“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”

Source : Og Mandino (2007). “The Greatest Secret In The World”, p.52, Jaico Publishing House
“We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.”

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