"Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having--a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say...."

-- Nick Hornby

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #People Quotes

“I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult life as governor, that didn't allow black membership! I guarantee most Americans don't know that.”
“My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.”

Source : FaceBook post by David Peace from Nov 25, 2011
“Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?”
“The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?”

Source : Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.248, Univ of California Press
“I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.”
“I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.”

Source : "What the Internet is hiding from you". Interview with Doug Gross, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.
“I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.”
“With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.”

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