"A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventfulÂ—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness."

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Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

William Allingham

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“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”
“You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.”
“If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?”
“I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.”
“This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.”
“I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we just said, "Gru's Minions do this or do that" in the initial draft. And then, they came up with the characters' design and the philosophical concept of the Minions. And then, we started writing to that. We have to give a lot of credit to them.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion resulted from complex limbic brain circuitry that was for her, at this very moment, trapped in the trenches of a battle in which there would be no survivors. The mother in her believed that the love she hadd for her daughter was safe from the mayhem in her mind, because it lived in her heart.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2010). “Still Alice”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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