"Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money."

-- James Buchan

#Distance Quotes #Grief Quotes #Eye Quotes

“No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.”
“Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.”
“For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.”

Source : "Autumn Across America". Book by Edwin Way Teale, 1956.
“Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.”
“I don't want to die an old lady.”
“All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.”

Source : Joaquin Miller (1923). “The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller”
“But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.”
“You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.”

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