"I want the fact that I existed to mean something."

-- Harry Chapin

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“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK
“There is no tears without joy; there is no joy without tears.”
“I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?”
“First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world.”

Source : Claude Grahame-White, Harry Harper (1915). “The aeroplane”
“Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.”
“Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by”
“My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.”
“I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.”

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