"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."

-- Charles Dickens

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“The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
“Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall”
“I think it's really good not to get published. It sounds crazy but it's true. People want to get published very soon, but the moment that happens, you lose a bit of your originality. Once you publish, you are always doing things made-to-order. You stop being a weaver and become a tailor. You are tailoring things to suit other people's fashion.”
“When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant.”
“The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.”

Source : Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.232, University of Illinois Press
“Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street.”
“I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.”

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