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“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”

Life Should Firsts Ends Change Advantage Should Have Faults Objections Correcting

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.”

Life Character Life Is Literature Advantage Defined Consistently

Book:The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome

Source: The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome

“More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.”

Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Problem Know How Effects Conscious Advantage Solve Unconscious Adaptation Gadgets

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.”

Life Doe Reason Moments Might Interest Results Ought Intellectual Conscience Advantage Areas Determination Prejudice Strict

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5 bill once and felt so bad because the other $ 5 bill was now going to be lonely without all the other bills I had in my wallet, you just invest these dead things with life and that is our tendency as people. So animation takes advantage of that, grabs on to it, and runs with it.”

People Life Running Kids Able Remember Felt Personality Projects Advantage Lonely Bills Tendencies Animation Wallets

Author:Pete Docter