"It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

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Source : "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" ed. by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company, (p. 52), 1908.

Robert Southey

#Happiness Quotes #Sunbeams Quotes #Deeper Quotes

“It's compassion that makes gods of us.”
“I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.”
“The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.”
“Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.”
“Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.”
“apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.”

Source : Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”
“The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.”

Source : Sam Hunter, Tom Wesselmann (1994). “Tom Wesselmann”, Rizzoli International Publications
“There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.”

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