"If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong."

-- John Harvey-Jones

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“I belong to no religion.Â My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”
“Is that an invitation?â€ â€œI suppose it is.â€ â€œGood.â€ Cadeâ€™s voice dropped lower, adding one last thing before hanging up. â€œAnd tell your friend in the striped shirt that heâ€™s in my seat.”
“Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.”
“Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'”
“I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.”
“I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd
“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 2008.

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