"Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.”
“You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.”
“We have 50,000 moments of truth every day.”
“No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge.”
“All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.”
“Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.”
“I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33â€, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.”
“The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.”

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