"The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets."

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Source : "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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“The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older, and has no direct authority over you. Lack of context and perspective can cost you months and years--with a bad career choice, an unwise relocation, short-term negotiating posture, and, generally speaking, sophomoric thinking.”
“I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.”
“We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.”
“What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.”
“As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.”
“People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.”
“We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?”

Source : "Mind of Mencia". Sketch-comedy Series, www.imdb.com. 2005-2008.
“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.”

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