"The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy."

-- George Grenville

#Beauty Quotes #Art Quotes #Examination Quotes

“Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.”
“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.”
“When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (1998). “When Demons Walk”, p.236, Penguin
“Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.”
“I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.”
“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.”
“The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?”
“We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back”

Source : "Surveillance and Its Discontents: A Conversation Across Cyberspace with Edward Snowden and John Perry Barlow". techpresident.com. June 12, 2014.

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