"The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors."

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Source : Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”

Walter Bagehot

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“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

Source : An Essay on Criticism l. 525 (1711). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Although known in Latin (humanum est errare, it is human to err) and in earlier English versions, this saying is generally quoted in Pope's words." The ODP cites "To offend is humaine, to repent diuine" (Henry Wotton, 1578) and "To erre is humane, to repent is divine" (James Howell, 1659).
“Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those bodies and then zoomed back out, the photos would show the curving beach itself was another woman, a fractal image made up of the particulate sunbathers. All the beaches pressed together might form female landmasses, female continents, female planets and galaxies. No wonder men felt tense.”

Source : Bonnie Jo Campbell (2009). “American Salvage: Stories”, p.131, Wayne State University Press
“Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.”
“I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.”
“Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers.”
“Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.”
“When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.”
“You came here a fighter, Maddie. Maybe you'd lost a round or two, but you were on your feet. You want to stay in Lucky Harbor? Fight for it. You want a relationship with your sisters? Fight for it." "What about you? What about a relationship with you?" He pulled back to look into her face as if memorizing her features. His voice, when he spoke, was low and gravelly with emotion. "I'm already yours. Always have been. All you have to do is step into the ring.”

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