"We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless."

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Source : Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.255, Vintage

Vladimir Nabokov

#World Quotes #Meaningless Quotes

“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.”
“Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.”

Source : Song: 357, Album: Confessions of Fire, 1998
“A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!”
“Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.”
“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”
“The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.”

Source : Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.60, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.”
“I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.”

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