"There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life."

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Source : Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”

Edgar Lee Masters

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“The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (1951). “One man's America”, New York, Knopf
“The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.”
“A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.”
“Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.”
“I've never felt like a trophy wife. I have been able to learn a lot in my role. The fact that you do not have any formal powers does not mean that one does not have a good starting point to give their opinion on important value questions. I really feel that I can put the spotlight on many issues that are important in Norwegian society. And I am very happy.”
“I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.”
“That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.”
“She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing.”

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