"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

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Mark Twain

#Inspirational Quotes #Inspiring Quotes #Education Quotes

“I love human aggression. I like it in myself, I think. As far as something to get out, I believe that everybody has it in them, so I like to be an outlet.”
“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.”
“The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.”

Source : Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.169, Harmony
“A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow plane, paint the lights cool and the shadows warm, and in the sunlight plane, paint the lights warm and shadows cool.”
“One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.”
“I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.”
“Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.”

Source : "All the world's an art school" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2004.
“Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.”

Source : Lewis Nordan (2003). “Wolf Whistle”, p.32, Algonquin Books

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