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| | We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
—Roger Ebert |
| | To see what is in front of our nose needs a constant struggle.
—George Orwell. |
| | Americans simply do not accept the inevitability of disaster.
—Richard Posner |
| | And so I thought, that's impossible. And now, let's start working.
—Philippe Petit |
| | A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the conscious personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious. It is ironic, then, that so much of our modern culture is aimed at eradicating all reverence.
—Robert Johnson |
| | Far from being a prison, or a constraint, revelation is an invitation to mankind to reconcile itself with its deepest essence, and to find there both the recognition of its limitations and the extraordinary potential of its intelligence and its imagination.
—Tariq Ramadan
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| | The true creator may be recognized by his ability to always find about him, in the poorest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
—Igor Stravinsky |
| | For people like me, solitude is a victory.
—Karl Lagerfeld |
| | I inhale great draughts of space,
The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are
mine.
—Walt Whitman |
| | Unless we engage in a great revolution of values and overcome racism, materialism and militarism, we will be dragged down the long, dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality and strength without sight.
Martin Luther King, Jr |
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