Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I learn as I get old.
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As quoted in Fitzgerald to His Friends: Selected Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1979) edited by Alethea Hayter, p. 178.Edward FitzGerald
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Pretty...pretty...pretty......pretty.....pretty good. (Curb Your Enthusiasm, passim)
Larry David
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.
Michelle Trachtenberg
Sometimes when I'm having a boring interview on the telephone, and I'm trying to think about something else because the questions are too boring, and I start looking around the room where I work, you know, full of books piled up to the sky, all different kinds of topics. I start calculating how many centuries would I have to live reading twenty-four hours a day every day of the week to make a dent in what I'd like to learn about things, it's pretty depressing.[...] You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything... and know that we don't, that's the important part.
Noam Chomsky
Christian! hence learn to do thy part,
And leave the rest to Heaven.John Henry Cardinal Newman
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