"The unfinished is nothing."

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Henri Frederic Amiel

#Quitting Quotes

“The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.”
“Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.”

Source : Maria Monk (1851). “The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed”, p.26
“Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars. Value: priceless.”
“The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies to people of color. Some people have a mistaken view of it in America. It also is with respect to women, it's with respect to other efforts to try to reach out and be inclusive in our country.”
“How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?”
“It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.”

Source : Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.6, Macmillan
“I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography.”

Source : Stephen Walker, Gordon Matta-Clark (2009). “Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism”, I B Tauris & Company Limited
“Certain bedrock principles arguably a true conservative mindset dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing[...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.”

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