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“You appreciate things after you lose them.”
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“Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.”
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“Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.”
Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 233, 1991.
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“In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.”
Source : "OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music". Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. April 2000.
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“Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.”
Source : Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.133, Penguin
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“The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives or in the lives that they intend to lead in school. When they begin to teach, they come into their classrooms with a sense of affirmation of the goodness and the fullness of existence, with a sense of satisfaction in discovering the unexpected in their students, and with a longing to surprise the world, their kids, even themselves, with their capacity to leave each place they've been ... a better and more joyful place than it was when they entered it.”
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“The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.”
Source : Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.174, A&C Black
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“Who does it hurt? That's who the story is about.”