"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."

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Source : "Not a Preface, but a Word of Thanks". Foreword to "Unfinished Journey" by Yehudi Menuhin, 1977.

George Steiner

#Men Quotes #Light Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.”
“I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.”
“Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.”
“Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!”
“The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.”
“I BELIEVE!!!!!!!" - Johnny”
“My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.”
“Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.”

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