“ Luxury: more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
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“ This is something that I cannot get over — that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. ”
- Karl Wallenda- Copy
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“ The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do all ideal plans will fall into quicksand. ”
- Richard Feynman- Copy
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“ America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you forget what it's like in the valley. There are 5+ billion people out there now who are willing to study harder, work harder for less money and be more industrious than we are… ”
- Frank Ogden- Copy
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“ In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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