"The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation."

-- Roger Cohen

#Spring Quotes #Quality Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
“Have courage. It clears the way for things that need to be.”
“Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.”

Source : "Nouveau système de musique théorique" by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Paris, (p. 59), 1726.
“Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.”

Source : "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.
“I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.”
“I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same”
“It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.”

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