"I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and itâ€™s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world."

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Source : Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.167, Small Beer Press

Geoff Ryman

#Beautiful Quotes #Witty Quotes #Promise Quotes

“I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?”
“The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.”

Source : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.”
“What it means to be a man is to take on all the emotional pain and work through what you got to work through with the people you love while at the same time getting your business done. And it's tough. I think that most children when they grow up they kind of realize that the things they didn't like about their parents or didn't understand about them they get now and that you know every year you get more responsibilities. You get more overhead. You get more things you got to take care off.”
“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
“I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.”
“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”
“To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.”

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