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• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Goals

• I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Up
  • Never
  • Jail

• I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • God
  • Think
  • Me

• Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody, I have some money 'cause I just got paid. How I wish I had someone to talk to, I'm in an awful way.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Money
  • Night
  • Wish

• Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Anxiety

• The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • World
  • Good

• I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

  

  Clive James
  • World
  • History

• I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Pretty
  • Crazy

• When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Beginning
  • Drawing

• My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

  

  Brian Krzanich
  • Family
  • Lost
  • Friend

• When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Game

• We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • People
  • Humility

• No one is attacking Islam, as such. We accept that there is a large French-born Islamic population in France who have a right to be here. The FN is not a racist or Islamophobic party.

  

  Marion Marechal-Le Pen
  • Party
  • Islamic

• I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'

  

  Autumn Reeser
  • House
  • Transformation

• During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

  

  Joan Baez
  • Boyfriend

• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Live

• For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • World
  • Moving
  • Information

• The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.

  

  William E. Burrows
  • Community
  • Reason
  • Humanity

• Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity … because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • People
  • God
  • Different

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