"Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness."

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Baltasar Gracian

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“The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.”
“Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.”
“If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.”

Source : "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.
“An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.”

Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.4, Vintage
“You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.”
“He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.”

Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster
“Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.”
“The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.”

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