"Tension of opposites."

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Mitch Albom

#Opposites Quotes #Tension Quotes

“Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.”

Source : Elihu Burritt (1850). “Miscellaneous Writings”, p.48
“Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.”
“I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.”
“The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.”
“I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.”
“Israel is very confusing because it seems to be a Goliath, and in some ways it is, when you look at the tanks versus the Palestinian boy. But deep down, when you look at the big map and the big picture and the big history, we are really a David. We are a David with some megalomaniac ideas who thinks he's huge. But we're not. At the end of the day, Jews as a people are an endangered species. One cannot overlook this dimension.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.”
“I want to hold you, Nikki. Will you let me?”

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