"It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place."

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Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.12, Da Capo Press

Gordon Livingston

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“In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.”

Source : Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.139, Beacon Press
“At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'”
“Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.”
“Service is the rent we pay for living.”
“Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you”
“It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.”

Source : Emil Artin (2016). “Geometric Algebra”, p.14, Courier Dover Publications
“When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.”

Source : 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'
“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.”

Source : "Playing comic relief suits Steve Zahn just fine". East Bay Times Interview, www.eastbaytimes.com. April 11, 2005.

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