"I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough."

-- Jim Bishop

#Distance Quotes #Book Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.”
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
“I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.”
“Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.”

Source : Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”
“The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.”
“We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.”
“I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.”

Source : "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
“Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?”

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