"This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away."

-- Amelia Barr

#Running Quotes #Giving Quotes #Luck Quotes

“When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.”
“Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.”
“To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.”

Source : "Still More of Who Said That?". Book by Renie Gee, 1981.
“If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].”
“I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.”
“The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.”

Source : "Governor Brown, Senate President pro Tempore and Assembly Speaker Support Raising California’s Minimum Wage". www.gov.ca.gov. September 11, 2013.
“To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows”

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