"So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning"

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John Walter Bratton

#Birthday Quotes #Special Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”
“One thing I am learning is to slow down. Multitasking is great, but I when try to do everything at warp speed I just end up with typos and stress.”

Source : "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.
“I misled people, including even my wife”
“Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached”

Source : David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”
“Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.”
“I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.”
“Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.”
“To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.”

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