"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement."

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Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.49, Prabhat Prakashan

Ernest Dimnet

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“I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.”
“The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of the investigator. Every Church member is expected to understand the doctrine of the Church intelligently. There is no place in the Church for blind adherence.”
“I'm not anti-immigration.”

Source : Real Clear Politics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2010.
“I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.”
“There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.”
“I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of workshop, he would have punched them...and I finally understood that when in a class with my wife. Every time someone said something about her work, I wanted to climb across the table and stab them in the neck with my pen. And these were people I liked and respected.”
“There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.”

Source : "Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. June 8, 2005.
“Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind."”

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