"How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from the spires, the spicules of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?"

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Source : Pattiann Rogers (1994). “Firekeeper: new & selected poems”

Pattiann Rogers

#Light Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.188, Columbia University Press
“To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”
“The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers -- a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.”

Source : Congressional Record, 91st Cong., 2d Sess, 116, pt. 21: (28028-28029), August 10, 1970.
“Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.”
“What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.
“I'm not a guy that sets a number of goals. If I can go out and continue to have a consistent approach every day and get to where I feel comfortable enough. Then I go into a game, relax and play, the numbers will take care of themselves.”
“The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.184, Simon and Schuster
“You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.”

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