"For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life."

-- John Milton

#Air Quotes #Blood Quotes #Hopeful Quotes

“There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more than half of Americans are concerned that tech companies are "encroaching too much on their lives." That's pretty major, considering these companies were universally loved not that long ago.”
“Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium...”

Source : George Antheil (1945). “Bad boy of music”
“As we continue toward the fifth secret technique of psychics, I have a gut feeling that you are the sort of person that lets your heart rule your head, can sometimes be too impulsive for your own good, and have recently come into contact with a goat. Rest assured you are not the only one.”

Source : Richard Wiseman (2011). “Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there”, p.32, Pan Macmillan
“I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.”
“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war... Mostly the animals understand their roles, but man, by comparison, seems troubled by a message that, it is often said, he cannot quite remember or has gotten wrong... Bereft of instinct, he must search continually for meanings... Man was a reader before he became a writer, a reader of what Coleridge once called the mighty alphabet of the universe.”
“Nothing important can be taught, only learned.”
“I think Obama was terribly sexist.”

Source : "Gender Issue Lives On as Clinton's Bid Wane" by Jodi Kantor, www.nytimes.com. May 19, 2008.
“A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.”

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