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George A. Smith quote: "Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a..."

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

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How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. W. H. Auden
She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking. Her shadow on the wallpaper of the hotel room seemed the silhouette of her uncorruption. Boris Pasternak
George Berkeley quote: "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. George Berkeley
The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on. Grandmaster Flash
We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing. Joe Elliott
Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any cymbals-We'll just slap our hands together, And though there may be orchestras. That sound a little better. With their fancy shiny instruments. That cost an awful lot-Hey, we're making music twice as good. By playing what we've got! Shel Silverstein
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business. William Boetcker
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rory Bremner quote: "British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New..."
British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target. Rory Bremner
Meg Cabot quote: "It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your..."
It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right. Meg Cabot
I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world. Callan McAuliffe
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal. Theodor Herzl
Khalil Gibran quote: "And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the..."
And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. Khalil Gibran
The Imperial forces must keep their hands off, but they find that they can do much even so. Each sector is encouraged to be suspicious of its neighbors. Within each sector, economic and social classes are encouraged to wage a kind of war with each other. The result is that all over Trantor it is impossible for the people to take united action. Everywhere, the people would rather fight each other than make a common stand against the central tyranny and the Empire rules without having to exert... Isaac Asimov
Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. Shelley Winters