"All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on."

-- John Ruskin

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“The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.”
“I remember coming in to the studio and meeting Barry Manilow . I was kind of star-struck. He said, "I want to play you this song." We get to the end of the song and I hear him actually sing my name as part of the lyric. I had to pick my jaw up from the floor!”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.”
“My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'”
“It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.”
“It's just the easiest way to score a point.”
“Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.”

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“I found out what the secret to life is - friends.Â Best friends.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ninny Threadgoode". "Fried Green Tomatoes", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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