"I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

-- Horace

#Heart Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Victory Quotes

“By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.”
“Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.”
“She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.”

Source : Song: She Blinded Me With Science, Album: The Golden Age of Wireless
“Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.”
“The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.”
“But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have.”
“We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.”
“Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.”

Source : Dianne Wiest's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 30, 1987.

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