"It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor."

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Horace

“The man wannabe actually...a wannabe. David Haye's a wannabe.”
“My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.”
“Republican women bring an important voice to the table.”
“I find myself very, very happy to be a weird writer.”
“At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.”

Source : Marlene Dumas, Emma Bedford, Standard Bank Centre Art Gallery (2007). “Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations”, p.42, Jacana Media
“For many years I didn't have health insurance.”
“The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.”

Source : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Kameshwar C. Wali (2001). “A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary”, p.1286, World Scientific
“If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.”

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