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Haruki Murakami quote: "Even from whatever miserable experience you might have, there..."
Even from whatever miserable experience you might have, there is something to be learned. Haruki Murakami
I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest.” He looked at Jaime defiantly. “I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them. George R. R. Martin
don't ask me what good and what evil are, we knewwhat it was each time we had to act when blindness was an ex-ception, what is right and what is wrong are simply differentways of understanding our relationships with the others, not thatwhich we have with ourselves, one should not trust the latter Jose Saramago
J. D. Salinger quote: "You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl."
You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl. J. D. Salinger
Ezra Pound quote: "Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never..."
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound Ezra Pound
Francis Bacon quote: "We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand..."
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake... Francis Bacon
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education. Luther Burbank
Auberon Waugh quote: "I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to..."
I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort. Auberon Waugh
It is part of a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing . . . it isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt. Dodie Smith
Humans are not machines, and some of their energy during the day will go into discussions or activities unrelated to the common task. Within reason, this "time wasting" is acceptable, but it can become a problem in a team that does not have a really positive attitude to the common task John Adair
Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
One thing I know beyond doubt. Had [Babbage] overheard someone he respected praise him highly it would have sweetened life for him for more than a day. We are starved for praise. It reconciles us with life. ... Self-doubt is at the core of our being. We need people who by their attitude and words will convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are. Hence the vital role of judicious praise. Eric Hoffer
The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though one of the most painful results brought about by the course of his development. It is quite essential that that liberation should occur and it may be presumed that it has been to some extent achieved by everyone who has reached a normal state. Indeed, the whole progress of society rests upon the opposition between successive generations. On the other hand, there is a class of... Sigmund Freud
Martin Amis quote: "But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us..."
But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while. Martin Amis
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed? be it ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of civilization? will be unavoidable. If we are no longer threatened by world war or by the danger that the absurd mountains of accumulated nuclear weapons might blow up the world, this does not mean that we have definitely won. We are still... Vaclav Havel

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