"Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings."

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Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

John Boyle O'Reilly

#Life Quotes #Skills Quotes #Symphony Quotes

“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

Source : Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion
“As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.”
“I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.”

Source : "Last Comic Standing". Comedy, Reality-TV,
“Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.”

Source : Married Love ch. 5 (1918)
“God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.”
“Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.”
“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

Source : Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

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