"How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!"

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Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1925). “Prose Fancies”

Richard Le Gallienne

#Life Quotes #Skills Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup”
“I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.”
“Only a few reporters...discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities.”
“We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.”
“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”
“I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!”
“You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.”
“Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.”

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