"Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more."

-- Penelope Keith

#People Quotes #May Quotes #Young Quotes

“It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nancy Thayer from Feb 24, 2015
“The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing about tolerance. Or justice. People who, hiding behind a backward sense of tolerance and justice, explain to us that we must accept all the actions of all civilizations, including the stoning of adulterous wives or the mutilation of little girls.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.”
“in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.”
“The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.”
“I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.”
“Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.”
“First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.163, Courier Corporation

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