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“I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get.”
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“We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.”
Source : William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.23, New Directions Publishing
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“I live my life until there's no more living to be done. Because you never know when it's going to stop. Wake up tomorrow and it could all be gone, bro. All the cars, all the motorcycles, everything. All the memories. We could go into a state of emergency, you know, and the world goes to war. The money won't count for nothing.”
Source : Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.
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“I was jealous; therefore I loved.”
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“Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.”
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“Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.”
Source : Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”
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“Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.”
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“The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.”