"It is surely one of the strangest of our propensities to mark out those we love best for the worst usage; yet we do, all of us. We can take any freedom with a friend; we stand on no ceremony with a friend."

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Source : "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#Love Is Quotes #Usage Quotes #Mark Quotes

“I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.”

Source : "“Melancholia” Star Kirsten Dunst: “Thank you, Penelope Cruz, for not doing this.”". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2011.
“A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.”
“"...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world."”
“If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem.”
“Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.”
“Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system”

Source : Bill Mollison (1979). “Permaculture Two: Practical Design for Town and Country in Permanent Agriculture”, Permaculture Inst of
“All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.”
“I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.”

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