"And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us"

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Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.108, Applewood Books

Will Carleton

#Way Quotes #Deuces Quotes #Pay Quotes

“The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.”
“I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.”
“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”

Source : "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.
“I began to wonder why we cuddle some animals and put a fork in others.”
“Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.”
“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”
“When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.”

Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 10, 10,
“Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.”

Source : The report by Nicholas Stern, www.washingtonpost.com. October 31, 2006.

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