"We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next."

-- Sophie Swetchine

#Apples Quotes #One Day Quotes #World Quotes

“I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.”
“The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.”

Source : Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”
“Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.”
“I think that if you're doing something that's important, that's significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away.”
“Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don't matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.”
“As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. Itâ€œs not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.”
“What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.”
“The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.”

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