"Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass."

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Source : John Vanbrugh (1730). “Esop. [By Sir John Vanbrugh.]”, p.54

John Vanbrugh

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“I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.”
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.12, Publishdrive
“Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.”

Source : "‘Little White Lies’ Writer-Director Guillaume Canet on His Personal French Drama and Making the Upcoming ‘Blood Ties’ in the U.S." by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 22, 2012.
“I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.”
“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
“Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.”

Source : Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.3, SUNY Press
“We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.”
“The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.”

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