"Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord."

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Beautiful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Accord Quotes

“Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence of a person, somebody remembers.”
“Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 25, 2012
“I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.”
“You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.”
“Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control. The human race is its own rain and its own sun. It creates its own cyclones and anti-cyclones. The ridges of high pressure which we sometimes enjoy, the troughs of low pressure which we so often endure, are of our own making and nobody else's.”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter”
“The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.”
“I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.”

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