"I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they're safer than samovars. They're like stars and we'll 'light' the whole earth with them."
Svetlana Alexievich
"One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are."
Anonymous
"Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
Anonymous
"Gifts are hooks."
Martial
"Children need calm—they’re artists."
John J. Geddes
"The universe is made of stories not of atoms."
Muriel Rukeyser
"It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done."
Mitch Albom
"Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state."
Alexander Pope
"When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic."
Hugh Hardy
"When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning."
Anonymous
"I quote others in order to better express my own self."
Michel de Montaigne
"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will."
La Rochefoucauld
"All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill."
George R.R. Martin
"Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao."
Osho
"The world is sitting on a gold mine but knows it not."
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