"There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy."

-- John Ruskin

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“If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.”
“I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.”
“Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.”

Source : Estelle Philleo, Arthur Chapman (1920). “Out where the West Begins”
“Systems are made by players rather than players making systems”
“there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
“No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.”
“My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.”

Source : "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.
“Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.”

Source : "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". Book by Charles Mackay, 1841.

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