"We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Resilience Quotes #Thanks Quotes #Sissy Quotes

“The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.”
“Don't be an asshole," the guy snapped as he cracked a freshie. "Oh, right, because two in this group would be overkill.”
“You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?”

Source : Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com. November 1, 2001.
“You belong to the earth and the earth is hard.”

Source : Amanda Coplin (2012). “The Orchardist: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins
“Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”
“Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.”
“That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?”
“The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years ; and though I go from this heated theatre into the squares of the Hospital, in the severest winter nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold...”

Source : Sir Astley Cooper (1825). “The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.58

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