"I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Spring Quotes #Giving Quotes #Tree Quotes

“You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.”
“A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.”
“There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.”
“There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1836). “Sermons to a country congregation”, p.451
“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.”
“Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.”
“A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.”
“All you owe the public is a good performance.”

Source : Humphrey Bogart's remarks to Frank Sinatra, as quoted in "The New York Times", May 17, 1994.

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