"How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?"

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Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

Theodore Dalrymple

#People Quotes #Path Quotes #Doe Quotes

“You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.”
“The fast growing markets - the BRICS and Next Eleven - are the key. The next billion consumers are not going to come from the US or Western Europe - they are coming from Asia, Latin America and Africa. Formula One follows our strategy: fast growing markets, data, and digital. All those three things Formula One has. And it involves a stunning array of companies. Now that doesn't mean there can't be more.”

Source : Source: www.formula1.com
“Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.”
“The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.”
“There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. â€”MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE”
“Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness --- one that I believe is found in all living creatures.”
“I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.”
“Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.”

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