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Joseph Beuys quote: "In places like universities, where everyone talks too..."
In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear. Joseph Beuys
Nicholas Sparks quote: "You might not believe it...but you make the world a better..."
You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile. Nicholas Sparks
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when its at its extremes and thats what they end up knowing about it. Edwidge Danticat
In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts are produced as asymmetrical sections, paths that suddenly come to an end, hermetically sealed boxes, noncommunicating vessels, watertight compartments, in which there are gaps even between things that are contiguous, gaps that are affirmations, pieces of a puzzle belonging not to any one puzzle but to many, pieces assembled by forcing them into a certain place where they... Gilles Deleuze
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "The resting place of the mind is the heart."
The resting place of the mind is the heart. Elizabeth Gilbert
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place. E. M. Forster
Ayn Rand quote: "I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed..."
I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. Ayn Rand
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings. David Herbert Lawrence
The law presumably says that it is finest to keep as quiet as possible in misfortunes and not be irritated, since the good and bad in such things aren't plain, nor does taking it hard get one anywhere, not are any of the human things worthy of great seriousness.... One must accept the fall of the dice and settle one's affairs accordingly-- in whatever way argument declares would be best. One must not behave like children who have stumbled and who hold on to the hurt place and spend their time... Socrates
Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun Tracy Chapman
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside. Robert A. Heinlein
Rudyard Kipling quote: "Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take..."
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted. Rudyard Kipling
His little eyes, which looked as if they'd literally been hammered into place, gazed out fixedly and uncomfortably, and he also had a way of laughing uncomfortably with an abrupt, wooden laugh. Ivan Turgenev
The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly. Ernest Gaines
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good. Iris Murdoch

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