"Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus."

-- Joseph Joubert

#Plato Quotes #Swans Quotes #Style Quotes

“As in, I think Badlands is one of the funniest films of all time: Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened is one of the funniest lines in any film.”
“God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.”
“As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly â€œinertâ€ letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.”
“Never go in a place that you wouldn't take your wife.”
“Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.”
“I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.”
“I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.”

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“Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.65, A&C Black

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