"Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head."

-- Isaac D'Israeli

#Spring Quotes #Taken Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.”
“My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.”
“It is true to say that I was nurtured on Bible stories but mostly concerned with sacrifice. If by some mischance I did, or said, anything which my father regarded as improper, he would say: 'Do not grieve the Lord by behaving so.' And if I suggested that I wanted to go somewhere, or meet somebody, he would say: 'It will not please the Lord.'”
“The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.”
“My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.”
“For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.”

Source : Gore Vidal (2011). “Burr: A Novel”, p.598, Vintage
“Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields
“The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”

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