"As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil."

-- Jostein Gaarder

#Philosophy Quotes #Home Quotes #Years Quotes

“Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.”
“Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster
“Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.”
“I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.”
“There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.”
“Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.”
“The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.”
“I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.”

Source : Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

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