"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."

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Wendell Berry

“The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.”
“Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.”
“I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.”

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1898). “The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton”
“Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.”
“Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.”
“How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?”
“For home games, I bring my clothes to the arena. I bring two different outfits that I can pick after the game. Road game, I got to wear what I walk in with.”
“The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on â€“ unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.”

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