"The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things."

-- C. V. Wedgwood

#Beautiful Quotes #Dust Quotes #Causes Quotes

“It is idle to await unanimity.”
“I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow â€“ though I canâ€™t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.”
“The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.”
“The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.”
“If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.”
“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”
“She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.”
“If youâ€™re still poor at 35, you deserve it.”

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