"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."

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Source : Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.143

Robert Fortune

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“I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.”
“Do things the ego does not like to do.”
“The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.”
“A moment's thinking is an hour in words.”
“The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, â€˜notwithstanding,â€™ in the long run remakes the world.”

Source : Edmund Wilson, Lewis M. Dabney (1983). “The portable Edmund Wilson”, Viking Adult
“Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.”
“So many people have tried to get happiness and serenity from outside things; it's pretty much common knowledge that is a road to nowhere. I've never heard anybody say, 'Fame made me the complete person I am.' Well, I'm sure people have said it, but nobody I respect.”

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