"Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting."

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Source : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.47, Broadview Press

Emma Lazarus

“It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.”
“When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.”
“To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.”
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”

Source : "The English Patient". www.imdb.com. 1996.
“Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.”

Source : Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”, p.14
“Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.”
“Beauty and folly are old companions.”
“We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.”

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