"I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Mean Quotes #Trying Quotes #Should Quotes

“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”

Source : "Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development". Book by Chris Maser, 1999.
“Itâ€™s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.”
“Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.”

Source : Judith Rodin, Margot Brandenburg (2014). “The Power of Impact Investing: Putting Markets to Work for Profit and Global Good”, p.16, Wharton Digital Press
“A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting.”
“Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.”
“You have to be ready for luck.”
“Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.”

Source : Donald Davidson, William Yandell Elliott, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren (1928). “Fugitives: an anthology of verse”
“I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.”

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