"All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them."

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Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

Charles Buxton

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“As you get older, your songwriting starts to become less and less about you, and especially when you have kids and a family. You start to see the world through other people's eyes a lot more to the point where it's hard to go back and relate to that "me against the world" perspective that I think a lot of my earlier songs were about. It's not so much about "me against the world," it's, how do you make the best possible future for your kids to grow up in?”
“This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.99, University of Chicago Press
“I try to go to the gym three to four times a week and mix it up with yoga or a personal trainer.”
“Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.”
“Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“Are there any military actions that the president of the United States may not order on his own authority? If so, what are they? Bit by bit, decade by decade, Congress has abdicated its assigned role in authorizing war. Today, it merely rubberstamps what presidents decide to do (or simply stays mum). Who does this deference to an imperial presidency benefit? Have U.S. policies thereby become more prudent, enlightened, and successful?”

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.
“...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.”
“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.”

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