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Bill Watterson quote: "What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship..."

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

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Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only in the sacred books whose power everybody acknowledges, but by every movement of imagination in song or story or drama that height of intensity and sincerity has made literature at all. Literature must take the responsibility of its power, and keep all its freedom: it must be like the spirit and like the wind that blows where it listeth; it must claim its right to... William Butler Yeats
Alvin Ailey quote: "I always want more."
I always want more. Alvin Ailey
Education can help us only if it produces "whole men." The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the "whole man," in fact, may have very little detailed knowledge of facts & theories...but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these... E. F. Schumacher
Ovid quote: "Little things please little minds."
Little things please little minds. Ovid
Emile Hirsch quote: "I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want."
I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want. Emile Hirsch
Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong. Robert Henri
In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Capa quote: "This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and..."
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But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism. Brent Scowcroft
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. Gerrit Smith
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He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president. Alan K. Simpson
A person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourselves (like a garden at which we gaze through a railing with all its borders spread out before us), but is a shadow which we can never penetrate, of which there can be no such thing as direct knowledge, with respect to which we form countless beliefs, based upon words and sometimes actions, neither of which can give us anything but... Marcel Proust
Suzanne Vega quote: "I was always inventing characters and making up stories."
I was always inventing characters and making up stories. Suzanne Vega