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“The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred.”
Source : Marjorie Harris (1995). “In the Garden: Thoughts on Changing Seasons”, HarperCollins
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“Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.”
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“It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.”
Source : Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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“With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence.”
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“I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it even with everything that burdens love or, i could say it better, responsibility is actually love, as Pascal said: 'without concupiscence' [without lust]... love exists without worrying being loved.”
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“I don't want to go without leaving a trace.”
Source : Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 07, 2011.
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“It is my right to be rich, happy, and successful. Money flows to me freely, copiously, and endlessly. I am forever conscious of my true worth. I give of my talents freely, and I am wonderfully blessed financially. It is wonderful!”
Source : Napoleon Hill, Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D., Wallace D. Wattles, Robert Collier (2010). “How to Be Rich”, p.109, Penguin
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“Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.”