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“There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you...”
Source : Peter Shepherd (2010). “Daring to Be Yourself”, p.228, DoctorZed Publishing
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“Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.”
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“The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.”
Source : Gilbert Highet (1954). “Man's Unconquerable Mind”, p.57, Columbia University Press
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“You have to be willing to endure the discomfort, the doubts and unknowing, you somehow find the courage to walk through your doubts and the difficult times because you are living the life you are meant to live.”
Source : Source: www.yabookshelf.com
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“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”
Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
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“Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important”
Source : Zbigniew Herbert (1977). “Selected poems”
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“Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular.”
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“I’m always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.”