"You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself."

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Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

Arthur Helps

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“Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.”

Source : Howard Mansfield (2010). “Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart”, p.218, Down East Books
“Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.”
“The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.”
“I know that there is absolutely good in the world.”

Source : "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.”
“Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of (our) total being. They all are united in the act of faith.”
“When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.”

Source : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...”

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