"The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer."

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Source : Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.7, Hachette UK

Adam Smith

#Men Quotes #Watches Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.”
“Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky”
“Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy....”
“I can go right, I can go left, I'm amphibious.”
“As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.”
“Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.”
“If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.”

Source : "Was It a 'Riot,' a 'Disturbance' or a 'Rebellion'?" by Swati Pandey, www.latimes.com. April 29, 2007.
“Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.”

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