"Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds."

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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“The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”
“So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.”

Source : "Interview with Edward Luck, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. August 1, 2011.
“â€¨Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.81, Hachette UK
“A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.”

Source : Diosdado Macapagal (1968). “A Stone for the Edifice: Memoirs of a President”
“It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.”
“It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.”
“Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.”
“The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.”

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