"A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls."

-- Marsilio Ficino

#Team Quotes #Fall Quotes #Cat Quotes

“I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.”

Source : "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.
“Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.”
“It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.”
“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.”

Source : "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse". Book by Stephen Kotkin, p. 58, 2001.
“How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.”
“Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press
“Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.”
“True values entail suffering. Thatâ€™s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we donâ€™t think thatâ€™s completely real, do we?â€¦Longing is true. It may be that thereâ€™s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. Itâ€™s part of our reality.”

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