"I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons."

-- Cathy Freeman

#Hurt Quotes #Exhausted Quotes #Reason Quotes

“All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.”
“'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.”

Source : Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.340, University of Illinois Press
“[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.”
“Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.”

Source : Tim Dorsey (2009). “Nuclear Jellyfish: A Novel”, William Morrow
“As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.”
“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”
“I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.”
“The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.”

Source : "Dynamic Work Simplification" by W. Clements Zinck, (p. 12), 1971.

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