"As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts."

-- Edward Miner Gallaudet

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“From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.”
“I think we are in a non-essentialist bubbleâ€”everything seems importantâ€”so of course nothing is.”
“I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.”
“I'll do something, get into some kind of work where talk don't count. Maybe I'll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don't know. I guess I don't care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That's all I've got in mind.”
“The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.”
“Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.”

Source : Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.122, Da Capo Press
“Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.”
“People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.”

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