"Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions."

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Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction”, p.222, H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

#Memories Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.”
“How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.”
“We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way thatâ€™s better.”

Source : John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.213, Open Road Media
“Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.”
“Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?”

Source : Anne Stuart (2015). “Anne Stuart The House of Rohan Box Set: The Wicked House of Rohan\Ruthless\Reckless\Breathless\Shameless”, p.940, MIRA
“The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.”

Source : Francis Hutcheson (1755). “A System Of Moral Philosophy: In Three Books : To which is Prefixed Some Account Of The Life, Writings, And Character Of The Author”, p.266
“Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."”
“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”

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