"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Quotes
Our collection of inspiring quotes.
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"Failure is success if we learn from it."- Details
"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."
- Abraham J. Heschel
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“There are no more committed people on the planet than surfers. We fall down a lot. We turn around, paddle back out, and do it over and over again. Unlike anything else in life, the stoke of surfing is so high that the failures quickly fade from memory.”
- Surfer, Gary Sirota.
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"Even the Sun appeared hideous, so that scarcely a third part of it gave light, I believe on account of such deeds of wickedness and the shedding of innocent blood."
- Gregorius Turonensis (referring to the solar eclipse of 24 February AD 453, when Attila the Hun was raiding Italy).
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"Fault Finding is like window washing - all the dirt seems to be on the other side."