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Suzanne Collins quote: "Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world,..."
Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music. Suzanne Collins
This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out. Loren Eiseley
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore. Jean Dubuffet
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested. J. K. Rowling
William James quote: "A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and..."
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. William James
For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it. Peter S. Beagle
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their love. On the one hand, they are living a sort of dream; on the other, without realizing it, they are drawing up the fine print of their contracts like the most hard-nosed of lawyers. O lovers! Be wary during those perilous first days! If you serve the other party breakfast in bed, you will be obliged to continue same in perpetuity or face... Milan Kundera
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure. W. Somerset Maugham
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do. Henry Moore
Plato quote: "not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will..."
not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them? Plato
The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way. Dean Koontz
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster
Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the Nazis. Why? Because they were pro-Fascist, was the obvious answer. George Orwell
The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all. Terry Prachett
Heraclitus quote: "We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness..."
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. Heraclitus

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