"Time and chance reveal all secrets."

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Source : Delarivier Manley, Mrs. Manley (Mary de la Rivière), Rosalind Ballaster (1991). “New Atalantis”

Delarivier Manley

#Secret Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!”
“A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.”
“In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.”
“Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.”
“I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.”

Source : Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.129, Vintage
“Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.”

Source : William Whewell (1845). “The Elements of Morality, Including Polity”, p.157
“I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.”

Source : "The Rolling Stones: that 50-year itch..." by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2011.
“In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.”

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