"As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living."

-- Truman Capote

#Inspirational Quotes #Long Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.”
“I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.”
“Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies. One of them is local currencies. One is regional currencies. Another is functional currencies. Another is social-purpose currencies.”

Source : Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.
“If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that itâ€™s accessible to everybody, and donâ€™t get simple mixed up with simplistic, itâ€™s how you mount and present something that makes it engaging.”
“Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.98, Rodale
“There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!”
“All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.”

Source : Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, University of Chicago Press
“Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.”

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