"Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization."

-- Reynolds Price

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“When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.”
“Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“What your soul needs is a check up.”
“You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.”
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
“How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located”
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”

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