"When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom."

-- James Thurber

#Giving Up Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Men Quotes

“I'm not very glamorous.”
“I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.”
“No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.”

Source : Felix Riesenberg (1926). “Vignettes of the Sea”
“We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.”

Source : "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter IV, Part 6, The Inertia of History, p. 195, 1960.
“Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Midnight Tides: (Malazan Book Of Fallen 5)”, p.316, Random House
“While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. Nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. The yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. There is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. The task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.”

Source : "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
“A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.”

Source : John Allen Paulos (2013). “Beyond Numeracy”, p.23, Vintage
“Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.”

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