"Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary."

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Jimenez Lai

#Art Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“You are designed to reinvent and re-create yourself, over and over again. And, you are here-whether you want to acknowledge it or not; whether you even know it or not-for the evolution of your own soul.”
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isnâ€™t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesnâ€™t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
“Phones are powerful at providing information.”

Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

Source : John Burroughs (1912). “Time and change”
“Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.”
“You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.”

Source : "The Neutronium Alchemist". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, 1997.
“Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.”
“I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.”

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