"No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it."

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Source : "The Tale of Genji". Book by Murasaki Shikibu, Ch. 17: Eawase (trans. Royall Tyler), 2002.

Murasaki Shikibu

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“I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.72, Kodansha America
“No economy ever stands still.”

Source : 1963 The British Economy.
“When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.”
“Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.”

Source : "Karen Gillan - this year's model". Interview With Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2012.
“It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan
“People need to have compassion for others.”

Source : "I've finally beaten my mental health demons" by Nick Owens, www.mirror.co.uk. April 3, 2011.
“I donâ€™t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.”
“Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?”

Source : "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.

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