"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."

-- Tom Bodett

#Inspirational Quotes #Funny Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.”
“The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.”
“For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.”

Source : "Sir James Dyson: Design Is Everyday Problem Solving" by Beth Carter, www.wired.com. May 1, 2012.
“Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.”
“They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.”
“A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.”
“Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.”

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