That is an amazing quote, and one I have not heard before. Thank you for sharing!Doug Jones wrote: ↑09 Oct 2018, 13:38Dmitri Volkogonov, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, xxviiIt is senseless to try to avenge history, just as it is senseless to mock it. One must understand it. The past is irretrievable. The present is incomplete. The future has already begun.
What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)
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Re: What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)
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“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
Robert Frost
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"If you're Early, you are On Time
If you're On Time, you are Late
If you're Late, Don't Go"- Jawanna Saunders
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CS Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn TreaderCourage, Dear Heart
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- SocratesBe as you wish to seem.
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"First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-"
"Sir?"
"-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
“To Kill a Mockingbird”, Nelle Harper Lee.
“Chi-lu asked what is due to the ghosts of the dead.
The Master said: “We fail in our duty to the living; can we do our duty to the dead?”
He ventured to ask about death.
“We know not life,” said the Master, “how can we know death?”
“The Sayings of Confucius”, 1.11.
“Tzu-kung asked: “Can one word cover the whole duty of man?”
The Master said: “Fellow-feeling, perhaps. Do not do unto others what thou wouldst not they
should do unto thee.”
“The Sayings of Confucius”, 15.23.
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Edward Fitzgerald
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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
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Sigmund Freud in A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (p. 11).The most common, and also the most conspicuous form of slips of the tongue, however, is that of saying the exact opposite of what one meant to say.
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That's right, I love you. And just like the verse of poetry you once read to me, I need you.
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- J.K. RowlingBut you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban