"Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories"

-- Horace Walpole

#History Quotes #Victory Quotes #Bells Quotes

“The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.”
“In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age. Books and documentaries appeared, hypothesizing a snowblitz or sporting titles such as The Cooling. Even the CIA got into the act, sponsoring several meetings and writing a controversial report warning of threats to American security from the potential collapse of Third World Governments in the wake of climate change.”
“The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed”
“I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it”
“Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and arenâ€™t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?”
“Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.230, New Directions Publishing
“There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.”
“Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.”

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