"A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Greatness Quotes #Mind Quotes #Generations Quotes

“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
“We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.”
“What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?”
“The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.”
“For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.”
“Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.”
“You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.625, Random House Books for Young Readers
“The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.”

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