"A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear."

-- Charles Peguy

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“I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.”

Source : "'I May Have Thought Too Much About the Game but That's Who I Was'". www.espncricinfo.com. July 9, 2012.
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896). “Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes”
“The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.”

Source : Philip Johnson (1979). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1979: Presented to Philip Johnson”
“My best entrepreneurial advice is to start.”
“The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.”
“Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It was an agreement between (former Iraqi president) Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran (ousted in 1979) and not between Iraq and Iran.”
“No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.”

Source : James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials”, p.230, Chicken House

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