"The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both."

-- Thorstein Veblen

#Mistake Quotes #Hands Quotes #Errors Quotes

“I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing ...”
“I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.”
“You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.”

Source : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Rich in Love”, p.97, Penguin
“If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way.”
“My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.”
“Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.”

Source : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.40, Lackington, Allen
“The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.”

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