"But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view."

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Source : Margery Allingham (2015). “Dancers in Mourning”, p.31, Ipso Books

Margery Allingham

#Mistake Quotes #Fall Quotes #Two Quotes

“Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.”
“When I was about 16 years old, God was beckoning me and calling me. He was relentless with me and I finally just gave up. I got to a point in my life where I realized that everything I was trying to grasp for was leaving me empty. It was totally unsatisfying.”

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“The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.”

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“I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.”
“Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.”
“Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.”
“Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!”
“Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.”

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