"There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world."

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Source : "Ransoming the Time". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 14), 1941.

Jacques Maritain

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“What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”
“True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.”
“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”
“Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey, Grevel Lindop (1998). “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks
“Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.”

Source : "Lalu to teach management at IIM-A". in.rediff.com. August 30, 2006.
“Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.”

Source : Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.13, Bantam
“Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.”
“Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.”

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