"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."

-- Tahar Ben Jelloun

#Firsts Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.”
“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”
“Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.”
“In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.269, Transaction Publishers
“In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.”

Source : Martin Van Buren (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk”, p.1825, Wildside Press LLC
“With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.”
“I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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