"Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen."

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Richard Strauss

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“No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.”

Source : Race and Democratic Society ch. 7 (1945)
“Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.”

Source : "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.
“You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.”
“A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics
“The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.”
“Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.”
“You're hideous, you know that, right?”
“To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.”

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