"It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music."

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Source : Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.18

Thomas Noon Talfourd

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“Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.”

Source : Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books
“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
“If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.”

Source : George Polya (1981). “Mathematical Discovery”, John Wiley & Sons Incorporated
“From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.”
“He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.”
“I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.”
“This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea. He'd felt the need before, often, often, in their years apart. But why now? She was safe; he knew where she was - was it only the exhaustion of the past weeks and days, or perhaps the weakness of creeping age that made his bones ache, as though she had in fact been torn from his body, as God had made Eve from Adam's rib?”
“I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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