“Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
– Plato
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Present – Marianne Williamson
“We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.”
– Marianne Williamson
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Appearance – William Jennings Bryan
“Appearance too often takes the place of reality — the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash. Sham is carried into every department of life, and we are being corrupted by show and surface. We are too apt to judge people by what they have, rather than by what they are; we have too few Hamlets who are bold enough to proclaim, “I know not seem!”
– William Jennings Bryan
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Grow – Ben Okri
“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
– Ben Okri
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Passive sins – Eleanor Roosevelt
“So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Language – Franz Kafka
“All language is but a poor translation.”
– Franz Kafka
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Courage – Maya Angelou
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
– Maya Angelou
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Broken places – Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Humble – Carl Sagan
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
– Carl Sagan
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Thought – Albert Einstein
“Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.”
– Albert Einstein
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When women love us – Honoré de Balzac
“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”
– Honoré de Balzac
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Naked picture – Unknown
“Yesterday I accidentally sent a naked picture of myself to everyone in my address book. Not only was it embarrassing but it cost a fortune in stamps.”
– Unknown
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Good design – Paul Graham
“Good design solves the right problem. The typical stove has four burners arranged in a square, and a dial to control each. How do you arrange the dials? The simplest answer is to put them in a row. But this is a simple answer to the wrong question. The dials are for humans to use, and if you put them in a row, the unlucky human will have to stop and think each time about which dial matches which burner. Better to arrange the dials in a square like the burners.”
– Paul Graham
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Night falls – Margaret Atwood
“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.”
― Margaret Atwood
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Rainbow – Charlie Chaplin
“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down”
― Charlie Chaplin