"All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rainâ€”this is nothing beside a life without poetry."

-- Peter S. Beagle

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“In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.”
“And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.”
“Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 271, 1895.
“Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.”
“College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.”

Source : Ossie Davis (1993). “Purlie Victorious: A Commemorative”, Emmalyn II Prod Co Inc
“If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.”
“Maybe...in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe...maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little like life. I mean it's powerful going down and that doesn't even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.”
“Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.”

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