"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

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Source : "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.

Dag Hammarskjold

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“The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.”
“Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!”
“I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.”
“You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.”

Source : Song: Under The Weather, Album: Blue Slide Park
“A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.”
“Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.”
“God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.346
“I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.”

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