"We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present."

-- T. J. Jackson Lears

#Powerful Quotes #Light Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.”

Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.
“I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.”
“When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.”
“I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting a job and all that stuff, because I don't really need to get a job because I have a job as a writer/director. That's how I make my living mostly now. So I don't need to make a living as an actress.”
“I want to be free... free to develop my art.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.”
“Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself.”
“Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.”

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