"Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea."

-- Joaquin Miller

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“Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.”
“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.”

Source : "Music For All Of Us". Book by Leopold Stokowski, 1943.
“There's no heart like the Indian heart.”
“After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.”

Source : Dorothy Thompson (1939). “Let the record speak”, Houghton Mifflin
“I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.”
“I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.”
“Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.”

Source : Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books
“[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only the individual is a reality and only the individual is true. Maybe the process of isolation in an individual is one of the most important matters that exists. Is not the whole point of this world for people to separate and become individuals?”

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