"Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way."

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Rumi

#Tired Quotes #Heart Quotes #Air Quotes

“Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.”
“Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.”

Source : Song: The Fire Inside, Album: Greatest Hits
“Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated....”
“I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.”
“Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.”
“Whatsoever contradicts my sense, I hate to see, and never can believe.”

Source : Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.189
“In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.”

Source : Frederick Scott Oliver (1931). “The Endless Adventure: An introductory essay on politcs and politicians. From the flight of James II. to the accession of George I. (1688-1714) Stanhope and Sunderland (1714-1721) Townshend and Walpole (1721-1727)”
“Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.”

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