"The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything.""

-- John W. Gardner

#Business Quotes #Men Quotes #Cynic Quotes

“I do have to say I have been very fortunate.”
“Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.”
“Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.”

Source : Marie Lu (2014). “The Young Elites”, p.66, Penguin
“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.”
“When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere”
“It's a matter of balance of power. If the Supreme Court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down and fall on their faces and worship that law, it isn't a law because it hasn't been yet passed.”
“Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.”
“Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.”

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