"I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all their talk about the last few years-which are no more than a flash compared with eternity-being 'a time of emergency." It's really ridiculous."

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.”

Source : "Persa". V, 1, 10,
“And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'”

Source : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.12, Delacorte Press
“Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.”
“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
“People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.”
“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”
“Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.”
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”

Source : James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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