"I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous."

-- David Nicholls

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“Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.”
“I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.”

Source : Song: Love And Affection, Album: Joan Armatrading, 1976
“I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.”
“Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!”
“The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.”
“When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.”

Source : Leon Festinger (1962). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”, p.3, Stanford University Press
“To grow yourself, you must know yourself.”
“[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.”

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