"I think itâ€™s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldnâ€™t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes."

-- David Wroblewski

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.”
“The more I've done work with the IOC the more I've come to realize I'm really excited about this, the work that I'm doing and the impact that I can have if I'm fully committed to it.”
“The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must understand the relationship of enslaved people to Africa, to historical trauma, and their central role in food production. Their voice is the most poignant, expressive voice in Southern cuisine.”
“I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.”
“If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.”
“I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. Iâ€™d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. Iâ€™d never seen my father scared or cry. Iâ€™d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once Iâ€™d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impressionâ€”one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.”
“The dog is all things to all men.”

Source : Ian Niall (1976). “One man and his dogs”, William Morrow &Company
“I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.”

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