"A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French"

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Source : "Society for Pure English, Tract 05: The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems" by Society for Pure English, June 5, 2004.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Philosophical Quotes #Illumination Quotes #Sharpness Quotes

“All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”
“Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.”
“It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (1948). “Cloth of the Tempest”
“....he reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.”

Source : "Abiding Interests". Book by Gough Whitlam (p. 44), 1997.
“Whenever I have to do an emotional scene, I just take my contacts out and it means I can't see anything.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.”
“When I personally feel like I belong to the world, it is because I am with people I love in places I love. So I decided that would be my solution. I set All the World in a place I love - the central coast region of Southern California - and populated it with people and things that I love. I stopped worrying that I wasn't representing every place, every person, every possible experience. And I hoped that through this personal expression of mine, others would find their own personal meanings as well.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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