"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

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Source : "Quotation Finder". Book by Everett Dirksen and Herbert V. Prochnow, p. 55, 1971.

Richard Cushing

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“It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony.”

Source : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, p. 46; from the "Autobiography", 1960.
“the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.”

Source : Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”
“In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone elseâ€™s mother was staying at home.”
“Focus on what you're doing. Focus on the phases in front of them. Do everything you can to get the best at that phase and get ready to take the next step when it happens.”

Source : Source: prointerviews.org
“The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.142, Courier Corporation
“Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.”
“If you are scared you die every day. If you are not scared, you die only once.”
“Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.”

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