"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."

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Edward Gibbon

#Obscurity Quotes #Language Quotes #Decent Quotes

“I have to remind myself, Stop thinking about the future. Stop thinking about what happened at work today, or another choice you could have made. Just be with your kids. Just be with your friends. Enjoy your victories. Stop second-guessing things that have already happened.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.”
“The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to humans, it is guaranteed by law. All animals are free, but in a system of humans total freedom is anarchy. Humans have thrived by letting a dominant authority regulate freedom. Liberty is a freedom that the authority has granted or has been persuaded to grant. For centuries, the state and the people have negotiated, peacefully and violently.”
“There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.”
“No matter what you do, you first have to have a vision... to see your goal, to believe in it, have faith in it and chase it. And then it's fun to chase it. If you don't have a goal or a vision, then you have nothing.”
“If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.”
“Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.73, Granta Books
“If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.”

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