"Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit."

-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#Innocent Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Sole Quotes

“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
“Did I hear it's going to be someone's birthday?" a familiar male's voice said from behind me. I didnt even bother turning around and continued walking, but that didn't stop my nemesis from disturbing me. He jumped in front of me, blocking my way. "It's been a whole year, has it?" he asked in a syrupy tone. "Maybe this birthday I'll finally give you what you've always wanted.”
“Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up, it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung. Everything you remember is another set of hooks on which more new memories can be attached. So the capacity of memory keeps on growing. The more you know, the more you can know.”

Source : Peter Russell (2013). “The Brain Book: Know Your Own Mind and How to Use it”, p.106, Routledge
“I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.”
“Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.”

Source : Song: Eve Of Destruction, Album: Eve of Destruction
“I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.”
“We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.”
“What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.”

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