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“Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.”
Source : Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
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“Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.”
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“Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.”
Source : "What People Who Make Video Games Think Of Westworld". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 11, 2016.
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“I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.”
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“A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma”
Source : FaceBook post by H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche from Jun 11, 2013
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“All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.”
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“I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the first African woman to receive this prize, I accept it on behalf of the people of Kenya and Africa, and indeed the world. I am especially mindful of women and the girl child. I hope it will encourage them to raise their voices and take more space for leadership.”
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“You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.”