"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects."

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Edna Ferber

#Beautiful Quotes #Men Quotes #Tree Quotes

“We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that it is free to flow out again. It is also important for Hong Kong's status as a financial centre that there should be a maximum freedom of capital movement both in and out.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 134), March 29, 1963.
“I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.”
“One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.”
“We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.”

Source : James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.260, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.”
“Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!”
“So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.”

Source : Song: The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
“Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.”

Source : "On Living Merrily and Trusting Good Verses" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.

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