"No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is."

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Source : Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

Chaim Potok

#World Quotes #Way Quotes #Unfortunate Quotes

“Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)”
“Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility”
“But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.”
“History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.”

Source : George Otis (1991). “The Last of the Giants”, Chosen Books Publishing Company
“I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.”
“People ought to invest in us because they like our company and the way they run it. We still do quarterly earnings guidance, but we tell people openly that they ought to look at the company for the long term and that's how they ought to invest.”
“Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation”
“The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.”

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