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1 " The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. "
― Adam Smith , An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
2 " My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing. "
― Richard Ford , Canada
3 " I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, such a strange, unexpected joy- the happiness of caring for a child whose whole life was in my hands. "
― Philippa Gregory , The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #12)
4 " And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a daily exercise of adventuring, even in the stillness of his own garden? I mean, the poet. "
― David Malouf , An Imaginary Life
