"I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race."

-- Jack Vance

#Men Quotes #Race Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.78, A&C Black
“Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.”
“I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.”
“There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.”
“I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.”
“Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.”
“With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.”

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