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Morrie Schwartz

#Culture Quotes

“For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.”
“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.”
“Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.”

Source : William Whewell (1847). “History of the Inductive Sciences: I. The Greek school philosophy, with reference to physical science. II. The physical sciences in ancient Greece. III. Greek astronomy. IV. Physical science in the middle ages. V. Formal astronomy after the stationary period”, p.96
“I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.”
“Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.”

Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.19
“Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.”
“Guys don't really care, they just want to get the clothes off.”
“The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'”

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