"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."

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Source : 1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

James Russell Lowell

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Mind Quotes

“We must learn not to weep and to love what we have left.”
“NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.”
“Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.154, Jazzybee Verlag
“I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.”
“I'm a private person so wasn't the type of person who could talk to people and be like this is going on at home, I want this shirt, this girl don't like me, etc. I just rap about it!”

Source : Source: urbanbridgez.com
“I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.”

Source : "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
“Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!”
“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.”

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