"Life consists of a long chain of coincidences."

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Source : Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.194, Hachette UK

Jostein Gaarder

#Long Quotes #Coincidence Quotes #Chains Quotes

“There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?”

Source : Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.60, Ballantine Books
“The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.”
“So my husband is a health nut. He's a plastic surgeon, and over the years, he's explained to me exactly how important it is to take care of our bodies. It took me years to grasp this concept, but I finally got it, and it's a lifestyle for me now. When we go to a party, we eat off the veggie tray first before moving on.”
“Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.”
“You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.”

Source : "Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours". Book by Robert Pozen, www.businessinsider.com. 2012.
“If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.”
“I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."”
“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.130, Penguin

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