Quotes to remember

"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."
~Johnny Cash

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“We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”----Henry James

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“Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity... there is only the dance.”
― George Leonard, The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us
 
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

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“Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It's simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of 'You're not alone'.”
― Brené Brown
 
''UFO's: The reliable cases are uninteresting, and the interesting cases are unreliable." - Carl Sagan
 
“He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees, and autumn.”
― Elizabeth Enright, The Four-Story Mistake

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"I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall."
By Pierce Brown, Golden Son
 
“There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

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“You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.'
And how long is that going to take?'
I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.'
That could be a long time.'
I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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“The shell, it looks alive…” Zara stands awestruck, admiring the seamless shape of the gravity-defying vessel. “Classic flying saucer look, no seams, as if it was moulded into shape,” she touches the shell, it recoils away from her hand, “it feels alive.”
A metallic voice sounds, reverberating around the vessel. A feminine voice.
“Assertion. I am alive and right here in front of you—who pray tell are you?”
― J.L. Haynes, Zara Hanson & The Mystery of the Painted Symbol
 
“Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.”
— Hunter S Thompson

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"Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over the ocean from the beach.”
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

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''I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.'' - Hippolyte Taine

''Hippolyte Taine'' would be a great name for a cat, actually. ^_^
 
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
https://www.azquotes.com/author/2957-Carl_von_Clausewitz

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War is too important to be left to the generals.
Georges Clemenceau (1841 – 1929)

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Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6583167.Mike_Tyson

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Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck
https://www.azquotes.com/author/1426-Otto_von_Bismarck
 
“To sit outside a Paris cafe at breakfast is to observe the city as it wipes the sleep from its eyes: the soft clink of a cup and saucer, the turning of newspaper pages, the passerby with a cigarette who asks for a light, and me at my little round table, nibbling a speculoos, sipping my cafe creme.”
― Stephanie Rosenbloom, Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude

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"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute." ~ George Bernard Shaw
 
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day." ~David Foster Wallace

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"He was an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having said everything he had to say before he was thirty."
~ Oscar Wilde
 
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