"Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did."

-- Kasey Chambers

#Sadness Quotes #Great Depression Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.”
“But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.”

Source : Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)
“The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.”
“That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.420, Penguin
“Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.”
“Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”
“Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.”
“The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.”

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