"If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying."

-- Dejan Stojanovic

#Trying Quotes #Chance Quotes

“I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.”

Source : "Don't Cry for Me Fidel Castro". www.cubanet.org. May 15, 2000.
“Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.”

Source : Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail
“Never call a girl fat, even if you're joking.”
“How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.”
“The successful sale of British Telecom...reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.”

Source : "The View from No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical". Book by Nigel Lawson, 1992.
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,”
“Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-threeâ€”and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?”
“The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.”

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