"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

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Source : "Epigrams" by Martial, III, 42, c. 80 - 104 AD.

Martial

#Caring Quotes #World Quotes #Flaws Quotes

“Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.”
“It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.”
“Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. â€œHi,â€ he says. â€œIâ€™m Daniel.â€ â€œHi,â€ I reply. â€œIâ€™m June.”
“Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.”

Source : "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 7, 2012.
“An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.”
“When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.”
“I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken.”
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”

Source : "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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