"I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?"

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.”
“I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.”
“No one remembers who came fourth.”

Source : "No one remembers who came fourth" by Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2004.
“In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram â€”impersonal and unattainableâ€”the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.38, Courier Corporation
“I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.”
“I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and ***** my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.”
“The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (1964). “Up the down staircase”
“But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.”

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