"I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor."

-- Ed Koch

“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.”
“Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.”
“Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.”
“How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world”
“To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.”

Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.8, Courier Corporation
“"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought they'd seen it all. And they could not make a place for a girl who'd seen the ocean.”

Source : Song: Memories of East Texas, Album: Short Sharp Shocked
“Javier Pastore wouldn't get a beach ball off me if we were locked in a phone box. He's turd. Anyone who thinks he isn't is clueless.”
“Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.”

Source : Francine Rivers (1993). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.14, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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