"If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them."

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George Santayana

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“How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Jun 17, 2015
“One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.”
“The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.”
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
“I belong to a generation that had so many choices available. In 1970, when [former premier Robert] Bourassa launched the James Bay development project, nobody in Quebec asked whether we had the means to do it. Today could we launch another James Bay? Imagine the debates we'd have? We were a young, rich society with almost no debt. The generation that comes after us, and which will lead Quebec, must also have choices. And for that, they'll need financial manoeuvring room.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.”
“People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words].”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.”

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