"A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring."

-- Mary Wesley

#Florida Quotes #People Quotes #Boring Quotes

“Whereas I think: Iâ€™m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I donâ€™t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which Iâ€™m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I havenâ€™t existed and wonâ€™t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!”
“If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?”
“The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.”

Source : "The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era by Michael Mandelbaum" by George Walden, www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2010.
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
“There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.”
“The end doesn't justify the means.”
“We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves”
“I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!”

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