"(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart."

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Lorrie Moore

#Country Quotes #Heart Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.”

Source : "Sean Parker ‘Bored’ By Facebook — And It Seems He’s Not The Only One" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.
“When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.”
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”

Source : "Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach". Book by Karl Popper, 1972.
“The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,”

Source : Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr
“Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.”
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

Source : Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1123, Leo Tolstoy
“Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.”
“I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.”

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