"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature."

-- Mortimer Adler

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“I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective...”
“At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.”

Source : "Joy Harjo's 'Crazy Brave' Path To Finding Her Voice". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 9, 2012.
“I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead”
“If anyone was going to fall prey to a handsome vampire, it was going to be me.”
“I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.”
“Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.”
“For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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