"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Education Quotes #Men Quotes #Political Quotes

“No more running away from something or someone or myself.”

Source : "Supermodel Daul Kim found hanged after posting web messages" by Henry Samuel, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 20, 2009.
“Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.”
“Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.”
“. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.”
“I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.”
“The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in other periods of history, our time is in need of that genius which belongs to women, and which can ensure sensitivity for human beings in every circumstance.”
“Many are called but few get up.”

Source : Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.16, BookRix

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