"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

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Source : Malheur et Pitie canto 1 (1803)

Jacques Delille

#Friendship Quotes #Fate Quotes

“One of the most important goals to have may well be the goal to create the life you want without preventing other people from creating the life they want.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.”
“You dream what you're supposed to do”
“Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.”
“Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards. Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off?”
“You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.”

Source : Mary Stewart (2011). “The Ivy Tree”, p.202, Hachette UK
“Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.”
“Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.”

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