"So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique."

-- Josiah Royce

#Unique Quotes #Strive Quotes #Needed Quotes

“Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.”
“Youâ€™re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.”
“(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.”
“Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!”

Source : Enid Bagnold (1935). “A diary without dates”
“I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.”
“When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.”
“â€¦and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers!”
“Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.”

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