"Happiness often comes when least expected."

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Source : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.42, Gallic Books

FranÃ§ois Lelord

#Expected Quotes

“It is personalities not principles that move the age.”
“In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited by the thousands of nuclear explosions in cities, forests, agricultural fields, and oil and gas fields. As a result of these fires, the loading of the atmosphere with strongly light absorbing particles in the submicron size range (1 micron = 10-6 m) would increase so much that at noon solar radiation at the ground would be reduced by at least a factor of two and possibly a factor of greater than one hundred.”

Source : "The Atmosphere after a Nuclear War: Twilight at Noon". AMBIO, A Journal of the Human Environment, January 1982.
“America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.”
“I locked the door, for what good it would do me, and went to bed. The Browning Hi-Power was in its second home, a modified holster strapped to the headboard of my bed. The crucifix was cool metal around my neck. I was as safe as I was going to be and almost too tired to care. I took one more thing to bed with me, a stuffed toy penguin named Sigmund. I don't sleep with him often, just every once in a while after someone tries to kill me. Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.”
“You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I believe its a lifestyle choice and like any lifestyle choice it will be what you make of it and how fully you live and enjoy it.”

Source : Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com
“What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.”
“Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.”

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