"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

-- Thomas Paine

#Pain Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Serious Quotes

“Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.”
“Remember the cliche: ... "Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures."”
“A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.”
“In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.”

Source : "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.”
“I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.”
“From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.”

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