"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."

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Peter Bichsel

#Departure Quotes #World Quotes

“Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing,”
“Say it with pride we are Hindus”
“Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.”
“Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who builded the city against God back in the days of Babylon had the same hatred as that which possessed the men who nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross.”
“From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, have honestly been about trying to peel back each of those habits, to get back to the 12-year-old kid inside who was tremendously excited about life.”

Source : "20 Questions: Dax Shepard". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. September 19, 2012.
“I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.”

Source : "Five things I know about style: Zac Posen". Interview With Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.
“Everything happens for a reason. I believe in this at the highest level.”
“My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1963). “The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology”

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