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“Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.”
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“It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.”
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“A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.”
Source : Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.89, Counterpoint
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“The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.”
Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.
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“I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.”
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“The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.”
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“Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.”
Source : Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.225, Granta Books
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“There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.”
