"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything...."

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Source : 'Boswell's London Journal' (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1950) 21 November 1762

James Boswell

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Practice Quotes

“I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.”
“Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.”
“There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.”
“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.”
“In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2015). “The House of Souls: Horror Stories Collections”, p.102, 谷月社
“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”

Source : Donna Tartt (1993). “The Secret History: A Novel”, Ballantine Books
“These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.”

Source : Frances Wright (1829). “Course of Popular Lectures”, p.48
“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”

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