"Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all.""

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Arthur Gordon Webster

#Spiritual Quotes #Agreement Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”
“I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.”

Source : "William Shatner Brings his 'World' to Broadway" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 11, 2012.
“I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”
“My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.”
“There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.”
“Thrust the sword into the dark”
“A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.”

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