"Gamblers and lovers really play to lose."

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Lawrence Durrell

#Play Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“The best way to change it is to do it, right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.”

Source : "Xerox CEO Ursula Burns: Full interview". Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. May 18, 2011.
“I don't like to overcook songs.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present”
“God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.”
“Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by Joseph Stalin, Joseph McCarthy and Mao Tse Tung.”
“We must see that regional imbalances in the growth of various parties of the country are removed and all the states progress evenly. We shall ensure that all citizens of the country get full opportunity to contribute their might towards India's progress.”

Source : Independence Day speech, August 15, 1985.
“Gods always behave like the people who make them.”
“Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.”

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