“ The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. ”
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“ Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow. ”
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“ The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. ”
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“ Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it. ”
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“ We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ”
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“ The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. ”
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“ We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ”
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“ There is not a single untruth, no but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude ”
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“ Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. ”
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“ The type of the Inevitable is death. I remember well that in my youth I believed that I was certainly exempt from its operation. First when my daughter died, next when you were wounded, I knew that I was mortal; and now I regard those years as wasted, as unproductive, in which I was not aware that my death was certain, nay, momently possible. I can now appraise at a glance those who have not yet foreseen their death. I know them for the children they are. They think that by evading its contemplation they are enhancing the savor of life. The reverse is true: only those who have grasped their nonbeing are capable of praising the sunlight. ”
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“ It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy. ”
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“ If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good ”
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“ Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind. ”
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“ Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one selfcentered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. ”
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“ Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by the senses. Frustrated, it creates even greater havoc, for like all love it is a madness. ”
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“ Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by the senses. Frustrated, it creates even greater havoc, for like all love it is a madness. ”
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“ When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. ”
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“ The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish. ”
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“ It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. ”
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“ Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ”
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“ Many plays are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ”
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“ Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. ”
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“ I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. ”
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