"...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing."

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Jose Saramago

#Mean Quotes #Islands Quotes #Order Quotes

“Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.”

Source : Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Sidney Coe Howard, DuBose Heyward, Elmer Rice (1988). “Famous American plays of the 1920s and the 1930s”
“I don't think of music as being a competition - what I make is exactly what I want it to be for me, and it's not better or worse than anything else. I'm just trying to be the best at what I am, or that I possibly can be. And when I've done that, I feel incredibly confident and there's nothing anyone can see to dampen that, but I don't think that because it means something to me, it has to necessarily mean something to other people.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy”
“That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is because of my principle that people continue to give.”

Source : Source: www.irinnews.org
“No one man is superior to the game.”
“Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.”
“Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it is, then, in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.”

Source : "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".

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