"When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God."

-- Jean Giono

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“I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'll never look at you in any way but complete admiration.â€ He stroked her hair soothingly. â€œYou will never be a millstone about my neck. Rather you're the sunshine that brightens my day.â€ He swallowed. â€œDon't you see? You brought me into the daylight. You've embraced parts of me that I was never able to let see light. Don't make me retreat again into the night. (Winter Makepeace)”
“Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.”

Source : James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.214
“You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past”
“The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I just couldn't see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game- the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods.”
“It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.”
“To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal”

Source : Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”
“Weâ€™re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, letâ€™s keep this fight going! Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and letâ€™s fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and letâ€™s end wage discrimination in this century once and for all!”

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