"The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction"

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Source : Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

Freya Stark

#Mistake Quotes #Belief Quotes #Static Quotes

“I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the deal?”
“Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.”
“There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.”
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
“I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.”
“Pain or damage don't end the world...”

Source : "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 2, Episode 7: "E.B. Was Left Out", www.imdb.com. April 17, 2005.
“You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.”

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