"Weâ€™ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Care Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Stills Quotes

“You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.”
“If you fall stand tall and come back for more.”
“It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?”
“We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.”
“Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.”

Source : Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”
“Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.”
“I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate.”
“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.”

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