"Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed."

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Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Jun 04, 2013

Chris Bohjalian

#Distance Quotes #Looks Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.”
“What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?”
“I don't care what you think, your junk does not have special abilities.”
“Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.”
“Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.”
“All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.”
“Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something”
“I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.”

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