"And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits."

-- Boethius

#Thinking Quotes #Fame Quotes #Well Known Quotes

“When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much.”
“Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline.”
“Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.”
“It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.”

Source : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”
“I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because Iâ€™ve been so absorbed in the last few series that Iâ€™d sort of forgotten that it wasnâ€™t real.”

Source : "Doctor Who: Frank Cottrell Boyce is a genius, says Steven Moffat" by Morgan Jeffrey, www.digitalspy.com. July 04, 2014.
“Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.”
“Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.”
“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.”

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