"It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word."

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Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

Alexander Smith

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“Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.”
“A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.”
“Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.”

Source : "Humanity Needs a Touch of Magical Interfaith Dialogue" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.
“Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.”
“...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.”
“It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.”
“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.”
“And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.”

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