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“A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.”
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“I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.”
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“I get bored very easily. I do like excitement.”
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“I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.”
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“What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely unbelievable. And yet classical economists say, "Oh, well, no, it would've adjusted perfectly happily, a few weeks of pain and then everything would've gone on as before, without a banking system left." And that's what makes it so maddening, that these bankers are back saying it was all the government's fault. The government saved their skins. It didn't want to, but it needed to save their skins in order to save the rest of us.”
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“Worry is the stomach's worst poison.”
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“As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.”
Source : Norman Maclean (2017). “Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
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“Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.”
Source : Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”
