"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity."

-- Alexander the Great

#Short Life Quotes #Long Quotes #Obscurity Quotes

“I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.”
“The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.”

Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
“Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.”

Source : Rebecca Mcclanahan (2000). “Word Painting”, p.19, Writer's Digest Books
“Never take an elevator in city hall.”
“I have 236 movies on my queue and I feel like I should always be watching movies. Like if I wake up in the middle of the night and don't fall directly back to sleep, I'm like, 'I've been up for an hour and a half I could have watched 'Toy Story 3' by now.' In this economy it is a sin not to be watching movies when you have Netflix.”
“The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.”
“All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.”

Source : Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, University of Chicago Press
“This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.”

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