"Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word."

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Source : Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.32

Frederick William Faber

#Sacrifice Quotes #Self Quotes #Long Quotes

“It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 11, 2010
“I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.”
“Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.”
“None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.”
“I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across and touch other objects in the set up.”
“I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.”

Source : Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.
“There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit”

Source : Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.82, University of Toronto Press
“I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.”

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