"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."

-- Nicolaus Copernicus

#Stars Quotes #Certain Quotes

“All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.”
“On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.”
“It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.”
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
“Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.”

Source : Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner
“There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.”
“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.”
“One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.”

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