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Vash Young
"There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river." --
Source : Vash Young (2009). “A Fortune to Share”, p.11, Lulu.com
Vash Young
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“Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.”
“A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.”
“Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.”
“Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.”
“The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.”
“Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.”
“The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation. Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government.”
Source : Francis Grund (2007). “Americans”, p.307, Applewood Books
“There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.”
