"To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it."

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Augustus William Hare

#Philosophy Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Climbs Quotes

“The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which finally passed in the Senate late last year, is a throwback to the 1990s, when ENDA was first introduced; the bill wasn't updated to the times we live in. It exempts businesses owned by religious groups.”

Source : "Why New Polling Shows Both the GOP and LGBT Groups Are Out of Touch" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2014.
“Things are rough all over.”
“I've been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It's a big deal. There are a few characters throughout your life which everyone knows and this is one of them. I can't wait.”
“The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in 'The Art of Happiness' have to do with reconditioning one's way of thinking and one's outlook, and one's perception and how one relates to people. That type of thing, any Westerner can practice at any time.”

Source : "Writer searches for happiness with the Dalai Lama" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com.
“Don't be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around; the path that needs changing is the one in your mind.”
“Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).”
“My first big break was with the Ted Fio Rito band. Fio Rito had a bunch of record hits in the 1930s and did a lot of radio work back then. When he came to my home town in early 1942, I sat in with the band. Ted liked me and offered me a job.”

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