"There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out."

-- John Maynard Keynes

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“Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.”
“Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.”

Source : Rod McKuen (1970). “Listen to the Warm”
“You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.”

Source : "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.
“The soufflÃ© is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.”
“Itâ€™s Fitzgeraldâ€™s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.”
“Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing us with a bountiful supply of food, with great industrial plants, with high-speed transportation, and with military weapons of unprecedented power, they threaten our very survival.”

Source : barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”
“Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1875). “Seekers After God”, p.32
“It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant.”

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