"You think youâ€™re a very clever fellow, donâ€™t you?â€ Saldur challenged. â€œNo, Your Grace,â€ Merrick replied. â€œClever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. Iâ€™m not cleverâ€”Iâ€™m a genius."

-- Michael J. Sullivan

#Morning Quotes #Clever Quotes #Men Quotes

“God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.”
“We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”
“I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.”

Source : "Q&A: Inside the Mind of the World's Top Chess Player". Interview with Aditi Malhotra, blogs.wsj.com. April 3, 2013.
“A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.”
“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”
“The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.”

Source : Todd Strasser (2012). “Give a Boy a Gun”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.”
“Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.”

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