"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

-- G. M. Trevelyan

#Waiting Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #May Quotes

“The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.”
“Here's the interesting thing: the fact that QE and lowering interest rates almost to zero has worsened inequality, does not mean that raising interest rates will help reduce inequality.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.”
“At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.”
“...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...”
“Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.”

Source : Robert South (1842). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.370
“When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt.”
“I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon”

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