"History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all."

-- Laurence Overmire

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“I'm just one of those hopelessly romantic people so I don't think I'll ever run out of stories. I'm always looking for love. But I'm afraid now - by doing what I do - I've missed my chance to ever find it. That I'm destined to get burned again and again.”
“Don't give up before you get off your feet. Put the time in to learn what you can, build relationships, and develop quality content.”
“I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.”
“What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet
“It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
“She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.”
“Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind .”

Source : "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.
“The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.”

Source : Richard Wagner (1900). “Opera and Drama”, p.122, U of Nebraska Press

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