"Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world."

-- Herman Melville

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?”
“Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.”
“When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?”

Source : "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.
“I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a bell rang, which called him away to distribute loaves of bread among the poor beggars at the gate. He was sorely tried as to whether he should lose a scene so inspiring. He went to his act of mercy; and when he came back the vision remained more glorious than ever.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 26, 1895.
“I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.”
“years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.”
“Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.”
“The little things in life are the happiest”

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