"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Children Quotes #Years Quotes #Promise Quotes

“Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.”
“We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.”
“There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.”
“Pain is just another form of information.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.336, Pan Macmillan
“Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, itâ€™s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You donâ€™t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You donâ€™t care, and you donâ€™t care that you donâ€™t care.”
“The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become focused and concentrated.”
“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”
“There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.”

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