"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."

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Source : "Fictional character: Edmond Dantès". "The Count of Monte Cristo", 2002.

Alexandre Dumas

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“Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning.”
“If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.”
“In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (1991). “Yes”, p.35, University of Chicago Press
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”
“Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.”
“... thou shall not steal, even by majority vote ...”
“Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.”
“The good thing about social media is it gives everyone a voice. The bad thing is â€¦ it gives everyone a voice.”

Source : Brian Solis (2014). “The Brian Solis Digital Reader”, p.375, John Wiley & Sons

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