"What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?"

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Source : Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.710, Macmillan

Brandon Sanderson

“Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.”

Source : Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy (1987). “Language in Literature”, p.410, Harvard University Press
“When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.”
“As for time, all men have it in abundance.”
“I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.”
“The core for everything is to be grateful. It's literally as simple as that. I've always known that I'm lucky to be an actress, and I'm lucky to be a working actress. I'm lucky to have garnered attention for certain roles, and I'm grateful for it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.”

Source : Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.
“The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.”
“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.”

Source : Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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