"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history â€“ true or feignedâ€“ with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Thinking Quotes #Done Quotes #Enough Quotes

“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.”
“You canâ€™t put the past behind you. Itâ€™s buried in you; itâ€™s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.”
“It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.”
“I'm thankful that every day I actually get to wake up.”

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“I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.”
“One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.”

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“Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.”
“And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.”

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