"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience."

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Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

Randolph Bourne

#People Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Scratches Quotes

“I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.”
“Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.”

Source : Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 14, 2013.
“It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.”
“When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In opera, there is always too much singing.”
“What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.”
“Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart.”

Source : Ruskin Bond (2005). “Delhi Is Not Far”, p.111, Penguin Books India
“There's no doubt that the Donald Trump administration, part of the red meat that he ran on from the first day when he announced his candidacy was a very extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric that he kept up through the whole campaign - the wall, deportation, more detention. And I think that that particular piece of red meat, he's going to throw out every once in a while and try to - of all the commitments that he's made, this is the one that is most disturbing, because it's one that he will try to fulfill through his presidency.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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