"Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things."

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Source : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.315

Charles Simmons

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“Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.”

Source : Interview with Professor Nicola Cabibbo by John L. Allen, Jr., www.natcath.org. July 18, 2005.
“The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.”
“War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.”
“But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--”
“We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.”
“She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.”

Source : Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Leonardo da Vinci" (1873)
“Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.”
“As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.”

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