"Know thy opportunity."

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Source : As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 79,

Pittacus of Mytilene

#Good Life Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.”
“Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.”

Source : "Dead Certainties". Book by Simon Schama, p. 320, 1991.
“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”
“I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?".”
“Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be hard pressed to decide what I enjoyed more: the richly and ominously magical world of Malaz and Genabackis; the large cast of sympathetically-rendered characters; or the way the story accumulates to a climax that hits like machinegun fire. My advice to anyone who might listen to me is, Treat yourself to Gardens of the Moon. And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster.”
“Quite often very talented people FAIL because they believe they are too big to do the little things, while the most successful amongst us are quite willing to do the little things. They truly are BIG people.”
“Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.”
“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”

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