"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

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Khalil Gibran

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Faith Quotes

“On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.”
“You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn”
“The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.”
“Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.”

Source : Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.393, Macmillan
“There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit the very best person in the field for an available faculty position. In the period after World War II Harvard literally engaged in world-wide searches for the very best and created a culture in which it was simply unacceptable to hire friends and associates, to make decisions based on personal affections or inclinations.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses”
“Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!”
“Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.”

Source : "FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.

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