"In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme."

-- Horace

#Opposites Quotes #Vices Quotes #Fool Quotes

“The moment is the sole reality.”
“Curiosity killed the cat,â€ Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? â€œPeople always forget the rest of the saying,â€ she complained. â€œâ€˜And satisfaction brought it back.”
“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
“Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)”

Source : Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company
“I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.”
“Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.”
“This objective of getting what we want from other people-or getting them to do what we want them to do-threatens the autonomy of people, their right to choose what they want to do. And whenever people feel that they're not free to choose what they want to do, they are likely to resist, even if they see the purpose in what we are asking and would ordinarily want to do it.”
“Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.”

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