"The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation"

-- Benjamin Franklin

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“When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.”

Source : Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January, 2003.
“I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.”

Source : James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.279, Dell
“Trump represents 30 percent of right wing ideology of white scared people. People who have freaked out as Trump points the blame on Mexicans when you have what you have in Europe. He is making all of the white people scared only 3 out of 10 people really believe all the stuff that is being said by him. You have to remember that there are still 7 out of 10 people in this country who don't think his ideas are good ideas. I am not afraid of Trump; I am more afraid of the people that think his ideas are good.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.”
“We need from time to time to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there probably are some who actually believe if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything's going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.”
“Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.”

Source : Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”
“Accident is simply unforeseen order.”

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