"Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd."

-- Peter Abelard

#Firsts Quotes #Belief Quotes #Absurd Quotes

“I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.”
“Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.”
“If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.”
“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”
“When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.”
“True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“People are proud of their players.”
“I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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