"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Dignity Quotes #Habit Quotes #Gravity Quotes

“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

Source : Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.26, The Floating Press
“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”
“Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.”
“I have no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted.”
“I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.”
“I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.”
“Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.”
“I learn the most from making my own mistakes.”

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