"What man has done, man can aspire to do."

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Jerry Pournelle

#Men Quotes #Done Quotes

“The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.80, New York Review of Books
“You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.”
“The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.”
“The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.”
“The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its wayâ€”the way of artâ€”for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusaâ€™s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same directionâ€”is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusaâ€™s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?”
“My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.”
“The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.”

Source : John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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