"The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard."

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George Santayana

#Spirit Quotes #Speak Quotes #Longing Quotes

“I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.”

Source : "Tuning In to the Absurd". Interview with The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.
“The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.”
“Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation”
“If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven”
“My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.”
“Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.”

Source : Janusz Korczak (2003). “Ghetto Diary”, p.22, Yale University Press
“We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think â€“ thought about is if only for a few seconds â€“ then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?”

Source : Karin Fossum (2008). “When The Devil Holds The Candle”, p.84, Random House
“Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.”

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