"To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days"

-- Edward Hoagland

#Dog Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Car Quotes

“The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.”

Source : "Why do we buy phones with so many features, then only play Candy Crush?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2014.
“I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began”
“I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.”
“No use crying over spilled milk.”
“The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.”
“In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.”
“I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.”
“Optimism is the parent of despair, while pessimism allows the mind to accustom itself to the inevitable disappointments of human existence by degrees, just as some drugs induce a state of tolerance. Pessimists, moreover, have the better sense of humour, for they have a livelier apprehension of pretension and absurdity. In a meritocracy, furthermore, those who fail must either indulge in elaborate mental contortions to disguise reality from themselves or sink into a deep melancholy.”

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