"Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale."

-- Plutarch

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“There are no insignificant relationships. Every experience that we have contains purpose and meaning. Each event, each person in our lives embodies an energetic fragment of our own psyche and soul. Our individual spiritual task is to recognize and integrate all of them into our awareness so that the greater pattern of our mission can shine forth in its full dimensions.”
“That is the brilliant thing about the millennials. They're not obsessing about, "Hey, there is not going to be a job for me" - they're trying to take advantage of how good a life they can have without having to create so much nominal income. Income is there to create quality of life, but you can share your car and get where you want to go, and you can travel the world by couch surfing. I think they're taking advantage of deflationary forces to improve their life while not maybe having to chase the nominal money that was needed to buy a whole car, a whole house, a whole couch.”

Source : Source: nordic.businessinsider.com
“If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?”
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”

Source : To A. J. Balfour, in 'Black Week', December 1899
“A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.”
“Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.”
“The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.”

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