"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit."

-- Igor Stravinsky

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“You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time youâ€™d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldnâ€™t know the outcome for a long time.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin
“Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth. He was an ambitious man who wanted to make an impact on history, and this is how he did it.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.47, Macmillan
“Every sin is the result of collaboration.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1): 34 of the Greatest Stories Ever Written”, p.841, Wildside Press LLC
“The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.”
“I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?”
“We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.”

Source : Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI, May 12, 1937.
“Work harder than your opponent.”

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