"If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches."

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Source : James Burgh (1816). “Of knowledge”, p.126

James Burgh

#Affliction Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Teach Quotes

“AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.”
“A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.”
“I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. Its just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.”
“The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.”

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”
“I would have loved to have had the start that Tom Brady did, won a couple of Super Bowls early, but I wasn't good enough at the time. I have to get better. You start to understand that all the talk and noise really don't matter. Every quarterback goes through the same thing. You have to keep getting better; your team will keep getting betterÂ—and you'll have a chance.”
“In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.”
“You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'”
“In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.”

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