"In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

#Dog Quotes #Men Quotes #Different Quotes

“White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
“Play always as if in the presence of a master.”

Source : Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10
“Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?”

Source : Polybius, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (2012). “The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
“The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.”
“I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train ...”
“Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
“We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.”
“Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.”

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