"A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes."

-- Julia McNair Wright

#Family Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Home Quotes

“From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.”

Source : "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". Jimmy Reid's speech on his inauguration as rector of Glasgow University, www.independent.co.uk. 1972.
“All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.”
“Never run more than 3 hours straight in training, whether your marathon best is 2:42 or 4:24.”
“Elections themselves do not necessarily lead to more corporate uncertainty - quite the reverse, stable democracies create a reliable environment. And elections have caused hardly any change in the basic economic framework in the last few decades.”
“The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.”
“The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.”
“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.”

Source : "The Story of Art". Book by Ernst Gombrich, 1950.
“Humans were always surprising me.”

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