"Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows."

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Source : 'Dreamers' (1918)

Siegfried Sassoon

#Drawing Quotes #Land Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr
“I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.”
“I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.”
“Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.”
“No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.”
“I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.”
“It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken â€” it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.”

Source : "Build a School in the Cloud". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.
“Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.”

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