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“The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.”
Source : Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.242, Macmillan
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“There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts you very well.”
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“On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.”
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“My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.””
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“I do what I do because there's nothing else I can do.”
Source : Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
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“If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.”
Source : Tibor R. Machan (1995). “Private Rights and Public Illusions”, p.81, Transaction Publishers
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“Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.”
Source : Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”
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“And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.”