"O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a record are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust; But he whose name is graved in the white stone Shall last and shine when all of these are gone."

-- Anne Bradstreet

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“If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.”
“I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have to learn to follow your heart. You canâ€™t let other people pressure you into being something that youâ€™re not. If you want Godâ€™s favor in your life, you must be the person He made you to be, not the person your boss wants you to be, not even the person your parents or your husband wants you to be. You canâ€™t let outside expectations keep you from following your own heart.”
“When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.”
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
“I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.”

Source : Peter Carey (2011). “True History of the Kelly Gang”, p.80, Faber & Faber
“Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.”
“The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.”

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