"Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask."

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Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press

Gordon Livingston

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“We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.”
“I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm.”
“Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.”
“As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.”
“Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.”
“I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.”

Source : Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.27, Penguin
“If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.”

Source : "Owen relies on honest approach to mean streets" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2006.
“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”

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