I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn’t on the list of the high-achieving.
KATE WINSLETSeraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!
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On a clear day, on a clear day, you can see forever, and ever, and ever more.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.
BILL AYERS -
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
CARLO GOLDONI -
Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.
ADAM YOUNG -
A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
BILLY CRUDUP -
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE -
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN -
I love babies. I could take care of them for all the days of my life and I’d be happy. It is for sure passion No. 1.
BIANCA BALTI -
Mom! This is Haruhi! We’ll adopt her someday so don’t forget! ~Hikaru and Kaoru
BISCO HATORI -
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS -
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
AARON MCGRUDER -
Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.
AGESILAUS II -
Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days
ABDU'L-BAHA -
One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
DICK CAVETT -
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
ADAM GOPNIK -
Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD -
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
BEATRICE WEBB -
It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
ADRIENNE RICH -
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS -
When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
WALT WHITMAN -
I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
ELENA FERRANTE -
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
D.T. SUZUKI -
It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
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