"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Age Quotes #Twenties Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.12
“When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see what they're giving you, so you try to write back to that, and then they play with that, and you get a sense of what is going on. That's just a natural way in which TV series usually work.”
“The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.”

Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
“Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.”
“Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.”
“When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.”
“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.”
“My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.”

Source : "The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger".

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