"Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request."

-- Arthur Helps

#Giving Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?”
“I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.”
“The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard owners to support wind power. It comes from those who appreciate the beauty of the countryside and who question the industrial spoliation of miles of open landscape for a pitiful net gain to climate change.”

Source : "Ecotowns and turbines are a political slap in the face of the landscape" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2009.
“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”
“Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.”

Source : "Collected Hymns, Sequences and Carols of John Mason Neale".
“Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.”
“The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.”
“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”

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