"Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad."

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Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

William Allingham

#Solitude Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Very Sad Quotes

“I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.”
“I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone â€˜smartâ€™ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!”
“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.”

Source : Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd
“My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.”
“The vague torment of ... ambition.”
“Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?”
“It's getting harder just to feel alive.”
“It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?”

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