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Luther Burbank

"Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew."

-- Luther Burbank

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“The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.”
“If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 31, 2013
“I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.”
“If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.”

Source : Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “Lion of Ireland”, p.205, Macmillan
“That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.”
“There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.”
“I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.”
“What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”

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