"It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Dream Quotes #Past Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.”

Source : "Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley is all grown up! Actor Harry Melling shows off weight loss at new movie premiere" by Lara Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2017.
“Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.”

Source : George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.47, Penguin
“I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.”

Source : Speech, University of Manchester, Manchester, New Hampshire, January 27, 2004.
“There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him.”
“Music has to be recognized as anâ€¦agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community and to express sublime feelings.”
“With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.”
“Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.”
“I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.”

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