"You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure itâ€™s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment."

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Source : John Knowles (1969). “A separate peace”, Bantam Books, 1966

John Knowles

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.”
“The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.”
“Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.”
“My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'”

Source : "The Misfit". Interview with Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2005.
“Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.”
“The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch”
“I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a highly valuable, not to say essential, social institution... I am convinced that the moral regeneration and repair of a frayed social fabric that this country so badly needs will not take place unless more people take their religion seriously.”

Source : Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.”

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