"Up to a point a personâ€™s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow."

-- Louis L'Amour

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“It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.”

Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.
“I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.”
“Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.284, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.”
“I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.”
“You know you're a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake.”

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