"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."

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Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1885). “Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.289, Ardent Media

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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“Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. Itâ€™s hard sometimes.”
“...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; CÃ©zannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.”
“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
“[...] Ich bin kein anhÃ¤nger der Behauptung, daÃŸ Maschinen kreativ seien. Jederman, der dies sein sollte, muÃŸ jedoch beschreiben, woher die Intuition der Maschinen fÃ¼r eine Kreation kommt. Ich vermute, daÃŸ Zufallsgeneratoren dabei eine wichtige Rolle spielen mÃ¼ssen.”
“I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.”

Source : "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.
“The perfect world for me is to find some sort of inner peace. I believe that a man that walks with God can walk anywhere.”
“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
“The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.”

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