"I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered."

-- Albert Camus

#Giving Up Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Upset Quotes

“Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.”

Source : "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, 1958.
“Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening ...”
“Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”

Source : Linus Torvalds‏ @Linus__Torvalds, twitter.com. January 29, 2013.
“We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.”
“Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken,”

Source : Misty May-Treanor (2010). “Misty: Digging Deep in Volleyball and Life”, p.284, Simon and Schuster
“Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficultÃ© d'Ãªtre, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.”

Source : Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.
“Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.”
“Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."”

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