"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

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Source : 'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

John Donne

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“My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.”
“The body is our general medium for having a world.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.169, Psychology Press
“You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.”
“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.”
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I donâ€™t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
“Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.”
“We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.”
“Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.”

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