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“I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness”
Source : Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.358, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has two million, and it has to stay up in the air.”
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“Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is part of the cornerstone of institutions built after World War II that has made the world safer and more prosperous.”
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“Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.”
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“If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story....”
Source : Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.21, UNM Press
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“I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.”
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“Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.”
Source : Jens Peter Jacobsen (1917). “Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century”
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“I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.”
