"Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes."

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Source : "The London Adventure". Book by Arthur Machen, p.25, 1924.

Arthur Machen

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“I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.”
“Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”

Source : Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins
“Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.”
“I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.”
“Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call infrastructure spending, government appropriation for canals, railroads, river and harbor improvements, and a tariff to protect industry. He believed in this market revolution that was sweeping across Northern society. He himself benefited from it in his own life.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”

Source : Arnold Newman, Bruce Weber (1988). “Arnold Newman in Florida”, David R Godine Pub
“Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.”
“Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.”

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