"The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Mind Quotes

“HB-Shizzle's gonna be honest with ya, okay. To hit these bad boys, you have to have pinpoint accuracy.”
“I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.”
“The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.”
“It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.”
“There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.”

Source : "Mark Duplass: 'There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends'" by Lanre Bakare, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2015.
“If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.”
“Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life.”
“I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.”

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