"Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs."

-- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

#People Quotes #Affair Quotes

“There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.”
“Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.”
“I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.”

Source : "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.
“It is not at all simple to understand the simple.”
“It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.”
“The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.”

Source : Ptolemy, Frank Egleston Robbins (1940). “Tetrabiblos”, Loeb Classical Library
“Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.”
“To see you cry wasn't my intention. just let me make it OK, just give me one more chance to say.”

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