"If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously"

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Source : Nancy Werlin (2003). “Black Mirror”, Penguin

Nancy Werlin

“It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.”
“It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed.”
“If you're not having fun, you're the asshole.”
“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”
“We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.”
“International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1952). “Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944”
“The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.”
“We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary.”

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