"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."

-- Robert South

#Imagination Quotes #Fancy Quotes #Judgment Quotes

“With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.”
“We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing”
“A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.”
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.”
“Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.”

Source : Chelsea Cain (2015). “The Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell Series”, p.182, Macmillan
“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.”
“I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the people I love. For me, it's never been about going out to meet guys or to show off my latest dress - it's the music.”
“The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you need, it will be so.”

Source : DONALD CURTIS (1963). “DAILY POWER for JOYFUL LIVING”

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