"How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire."

-- Clara Schumann

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“I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
“Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.”
“The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,”
“I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.”

Source : "Hong Kong Leader Abandons Reforms". news.bbc.co.uk. January 12, 2006.
“If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing
“When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.”
“The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?”
“Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.”

Source : Source: www.timeout.com

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