"Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Looks Quotes #Pity Quotes #Retired Quotes

“The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.”
“If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.”
“I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.”
“In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.”
“I donâ€™t know if Barcelona have ever gone to a place like the Britannia Stadium and suffered the kind of onslaught from Tony Pulisâ€™ team of long throws and free-kicks or been up to a place like Blackburn and been beaten up by their long ball into the box.”
“Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?”
“The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.”
“I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.”

Source : Christopher Phillips (2002). “Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy”, p.19, James Clarke & Co.

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