"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."

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Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press

Rene Daumal

#Change Quotes #Gold Quotes #Common Quotes

“We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.”
“Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.”
“HÃ©ctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.”
“So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.”

Source : "Republican Louie Gohmert Blasts American Jobs Act For Banning Unemployment Discrimination" by Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2011.
“If there's grass in the field, play ball!”
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”
“Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.”
“I like the idea of what happens when someone tells a small white lie - which I think is the premise of the show - and how it has ripple effects, so really it's also about raising the stakes of this little lie.”

Source : Source: variety.com

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