"If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose that I hold had no scent, we should know that he is wrong. The defect is in him, not the flower. It is the same with the man who says there is no God. It merely means that he is without the capacity to discern His presence."

-- Ralph Richardson

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“I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.”
“With better vision, we sacrifice for students for whom that sacrifice will most likely pay off. I'm sorry to say this, but there are times when even superhuman effort will not save a child from his environment or himself. It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teachers' job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.”

Source : Rafe Esquith (2008). “There Are No Shortcuts”, p.91, Anchor
“GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.”
“But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
“I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.”
“Time will unveil all things to posterity.”
“I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2010.
“Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.”

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