"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."
Edmund Burke
"The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence."
Anonymous
"The shadow of a character is defined by its maker...While a heroine is personified by its actions and relatability. So writers can create a world with a heroine that has impact and finish with everessence lights at the dims of its shadows."
Raquelle Stepney
"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."
Arne Jacobsen
"If the heights of our joy are measured by the depths of our gratitude, and gratitude is but a way of seeing, a spiritual perspective of smallness might offer a vital way of seeing especially conducive to gratitude."
Ann Voskamp
"It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience."
Gillian Linscott
"According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age."
Brian Greene
"We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves."
Malcolm Gladwell
"On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient."
Jeremy Rozansky
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."
Henry Miller
"Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself."
Abhijit Naskar
"The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world."
M.J. Stoddard
"Maybe they’re not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.And that better thing is us."
Scott Westerfeld
"His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg."
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