"A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce."

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Ideas Quotes #Want Quotes #Action Quotes

“I do think that the Trump presidency, even for the resistance, there is pre-Charlottesville and a post-Charlottesville moment, and Donald Trump's response to Charlottesville was a kind of extraordinarily shameful moment, I think, actually for the country.”
“I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice. Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.”
“Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.”
“Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skilful than yesterday, more skilful than today. This is never-ending.”
“Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.166, Cambridge University Press
“When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.”
“Be heroes in an army of construction.”
“In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson (1998). “Dom Casmurro”, p.146, Oxford University Press

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