"If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable."

-- Pindar

#Moving Quotes #Sea Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.”
“Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.”
“Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.”
“The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work”
“I began with track and field because this is what I know.”
“The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.”
“Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.”
“You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.”

Source : John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.81, Faber & Faber

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