"You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other."
Steve Irwin
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
Unknown
"Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions."
George Tenet
Justin K. McFarlane Beau
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"For poets the wages of sin are poverty."
William Logan
"Curiosity lights a fire."
wisdom illuminates it.
"The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths."
Aleksandar Hemon
Inspiration
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
Dennis Prager
Inspiration
They would repair the leaks in their eyes.
Tim O'Brien
Inspiration
At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.
Christine Kenneally
Inspiration
Point of view.' I never got that phrase, point of view; doesn’t everyone have a point in their view? If not thenthey don’t have a view on a certain topic they are just indifferent. Anyone who has a view certainly cares enough to have apoint!
CV
Inspiration
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
Laurence Olivier
"Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master."
Unknown
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."
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