"One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else."

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Lawrence Block

#Order Quotes #Serendipity Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Please. Donâ€™t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt donâ€™t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.”
“Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.”
“In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.”
“The launch of Google+ apps sends a powerful signal - the personalized web has begun. What this means is that the way information is structured and accessed will turn on the individual, or rather their personal profile which is a composite of all the data collected on the basis of what they have searched for and shared.”
“Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.”
“Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.”

Source : "World War II almanac" by Robert Goralski (p. 9), 1981.
“The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.”
“I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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