"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Time Quotes #Hero Quotes #Age Quotes

“Itâ€™s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible.”
“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.93, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.”
“There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.”
“Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.”
“I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!”
“Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And if it wasn't for him, so many performers like myself would not have the chance to do what we do in this town. He really was the king.”
“Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, â€˜put your hand on top.â€™ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.”

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