"We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure."

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Source : "Deja vu all over again". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, May 15, 2013.

Bob Woodward

#Literature Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.”

Source : Elmer Kelton (2016). “The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country: Two Classic Westerns”, p.169, Forge Books
“You tell your guy friends you got engaged, it's like hearing someone died. 'What happened man? Wow. He was so young, man. What happened? He had his whole life ahead of him. Wow, I just saw him yesterday.”
“To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.”
“There are still eight of us,â€ Guy pointed out. â€œNot exactly an even fight.â€ â€œI was thinking the same thing,â€ Mauvin said. â€œSadly, thereâ€™s no one else here we can ask to join your side.â€ Guy looked at Mauvin, then Hadrian, for a long moment as the men glared across the ash at each other. Then he nodded and lowered his blade. â€œWell, I can see Iâ€™ll have to report your misconduct to the archbishop.â€ â€œGo ahead,â€ Hadrian said. â€œHis body is buried with the rest of them just down the hillside.”
“Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.”

Source : John Osborne, Anthony Creighton, Arnold Wesker, Bernard Kops (1964). “Epitaph for George Dillon”
“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”

Source : "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.
“The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.”
“Even the clearest localization of pain in one area may, in fact, be originating from a distant area .... The reference of pain implies the existence of convergence of inputs within the spinal cord. This leads to the necessary involvement in central neural circuits in the simplest of peripheral disorders. It also leads to the possibility that the basic disorder is entirely central ...”

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