"I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished."

-- Tom Brokaw

#Inspirational Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“I do not consider myself beautiful.”
“Now the big danger is to avoid doing anything, unless you have a surety, unless you have an assurance that you'll be successful. It's not about being successful. It's about being faithful. The good is worth doing, because it's good. And who knows what the results will be?”

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“Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.”
“Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.”
“In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of oneâ€™s own appearingness. Living thingsÂ make their appearanceÂ like actors on a stage set for them.”
“No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.”
“It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.”
“Poetry is language in orbit.”

Source : Seamus Heaney (2010). “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001”, p.366, Faber & Faber

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