"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."

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Lily Tomlin

#Inspiring Quotes #Fall Quotes #Failure Quotes

“From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.”
“Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.”
“Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”
“I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.”
“...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics”, Harvard University Press
“During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. But most reflect George Bernard Shawâ€™s warning that 'if you do not tell your stories others will tell them for you and they will vulgarize and degrade you.'”
“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.45, Routledge

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