"Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders."

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Source : David Moody (2011). “Them or Us”, p.192, Macmillan

David Moody

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“It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.”

Source : George F. Kennan (2012). “American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition”, p.118, University of Chicago Press
“My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.”
“Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.”
“Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.”

Source : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press
“Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.”
“If we don't put our faith to work we will soon discover that we have a faith that doesn't work!”
“As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism, anti-migration. They claim to be left-wing but they're espousing positions which would actually be classically brown.”
“In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.”

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