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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.


Carlo Goldoni


#actions #bold #characterize #fortune #great

Need we go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was very much what everybody always says, and although I remember her as speaking golden words, I cannot recall precisely anything she said. If love is to be watched and listened to without embarrassment, it must be transmuted into art, and I don't know how to do that, and it is not what I have come to Zurich to learn.


Robertson Davies


#canada #jungian-psychology #love-hurts #art

Never ever tickle anyone, who happens to be ticklish and holding a knife. Foolish accidents not only, may occure, but will occure and you'll regret it for the rest of your life.


R.K. Cowles


#life

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.


Henry Adams


#companionship #counts #marriage #much

You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.


Josef Albers


#against #always #done #falling #had

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.


Muhammad Ali


#arms #believe #car #crashes #day

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.


Aristotle


#bears #best #circumstances #dignity #grace

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.


Avicenna


#accompanying #acquired #beginnings #causes #completed

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.


Augustine of Hippo


#attention #brought #cannot #circumstances #closer

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.


Don DeLillo


#americana #called #culture #declaration #first






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