"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt"

-- Immanuel Kant

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“See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.”
“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.”
“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.”

Source : More Than Somewhat (1937). This quotation is associated with Runyon, but the Chicago Tribune, 10 May 1936, printed the following: "'The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet,' as Hugh Keough used to say." Keough was a Chicago journalist.
“I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.”
“Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.”
“In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.”
“I just moved onto Queen West, after 20 years in Cabbagetown. The whole area around Trinity-Bellwoods is one of the juiciest in Toronto - all kinds of people to watch, dogs to pat, food to eat, galleries to check out. And the walk home from CBC delivers some of the most interesting window-shopping in town.”
“I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.”

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