"Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty."

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Source : 1950 The Liberal Imagination, preface.

Lionel Trilling

#Literature Quotes #Possibility Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face an increasingly complex financial marketplace, and it will take the combined efforts of public and private sector organizations to help seniors navigate the many financial choices they face. The start of Financial Literacy Month is an excellent opportunity to thank the Canadian Bankers Association and encourage other private sector organizations to take an active role in providing financial literacy support to Canada's seniors.”
“I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.”
“We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.”
“They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.”

Source : James Kotsilibas-Davis, Myrna Loy (1987). “Myrna Loy: being and becoming”, Alfred A. Knopf
“My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.”
“Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.”
“I don't think there is any such thing as a song that is completely great or good. A lot of songs becomes massive hits that are just mediocre, and other times there are incredible songs that never get anywhere and you always wonder why.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com

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