A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
TACITUSEven now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
ADRIENNE RICH -
[Heisenberg’s seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps-perhaps the greatest-in the development of twentieth century physics.
ABRAHAM PAIS -
Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
JOHN C. MAXWELL -
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HERODOTUS -
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL -
You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.
GARY ZUKAV -
If the days knew where you went it would not have become winter so soon, Nor the cold that freezes my hands would have tasted so much of longing for you.
TERESA PERES -
Adele’s like a beacon of honesty. Doesn’t compromise, goes to America and she’s still the same sweary cockney.
PALOMA FAITH -
because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
ALAN JACKSON -
You should always love people and use money rather than the other way around
BOB PROCTOR -
Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
AJAHN CHAH -
Sensible people have got to work together.
JOHN LEWIS -
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.
VICTORIA BECKHAM -
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MARILYN MANSON -
Embrace your constraints.
BIZ STONE -
One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
NICK SABAN -
The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
E. E. CUMMINGS -
I am never satisfied; I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step.
RIHANNA -
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWIS -
The Croatians don’t play well without the ball.
BARRY VENISON -
The wound is real but so is the healing.
W. SCOTT -
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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