"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."

-- Mary MacLane

#Beautiful Quotes #Brilliant Quotes #Fame Quotes

“Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.238, Basic Books
“Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.”
“Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?”

Source : Erich Segal (2014). “The Class”, p.517, Bantam
“I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.”
“Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.”
“Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.”
“the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress”
“I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.”

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