"Ain't nothing like the real thing."

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Source : Song: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, 2006

Marvin Gaye

“Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life”
“I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldnâ€™t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.”
“I live in the same house I've lived in for 25 years. I haven't gone off and bought mansions. Even though my subject is living, living in a mansion wouldn't do for my readers. I have to keep my credibility alive with my readers, so we're in the same place. I just make that place nicer and nicer. And that's a secret. People don't know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, but it's the same old place. It started out like a farm, it got to be a farmette, then it got to be an estatelet. I built a wall; it helped a lot. But it's the same place, the same grounded nature.”
“Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.”
“A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.”
“It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.”
“A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.101, A&C Black
“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”

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