"Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind."

-- Emily Murphy

#Chance Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.”
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”

Source : "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.
“I like aggressive and sexually liberated women. It's hot to me.”
“It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in European institutions of higher learning was appealing to professors because it was democratic. But those institutions also suffered because they lacked an executive decision-making process; making changes became virtually impossible.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.”

Source : Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA
“Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.”
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
“The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases...”

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