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“to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.”
Source : Storm Jameson (1926). “Three kingdoms”
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“For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.”
Source : Sarah Mayberry, Shoma Narayanan (2015). “After-Hours Negotiation: Can't Get Enough\An Offer She Can't Refuse”, p.94, Harlequin
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“they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.”
Source : ESTHER FORBES (1954). “Rainbow on the Road”
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“The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition”
Source : W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne (2015). “Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press
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“Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.”
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“I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.”
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“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.”
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“Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.”
