"Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship."

-- Norman Maclean

#Silence Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Silent Quotes

“There was a time when Istanbul was one of the safest cities in the world, because people were afraid of the police. People are no longer as afraid of the police as they used to be. Mugging used to be almost unknown; now everybody is afraid of mugging. In that sense, the downside of liberalization is already being felt in Turkey. And of course some people are afraid of Kurdish ethno-terrorism, which worries Turks very much more than the religious sort.”
“More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively”

Source : Ray Dalio (2017). “Principles: Life and Work”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.”
“Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?”

Source : T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.64, University of Texas Press
“Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.”
“The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.”
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
“I always thought communism was crap, really.”

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