"The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Lying Quotes #Past Quotes #Goal Quotes

“This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?”
“Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.”
“Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.”

Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.
“The term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can justify.”
“The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.”
“I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.”

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