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“All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.”
Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1985). “The solace of open spaces”, Viking Pr
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“I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.”
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“It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.”
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“You have to be more disciplined every day to get better and learn the game.”
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“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
Source : "Mad about Physics : Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities". Book by Christopher Jargodzki, 2001.
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“I like people who are constantly working hard, more than people who are constantly at their best.”
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“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
Source : Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.14, New York Review of Books
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“The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.