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“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling 'Kilroy was here' on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.”
―William Faulkner

“Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.”
―Juvenal

“At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.”
―Max Lucado

“Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.”
―Italo Calvino

“When you are in company, do not forget what you have found out when you were thinking in solitude; and when you are meditating in solitude, think about what you found out by communicating with other people.”
―Leo Tolstoy

Source/Notes:
A Calendar of Wisdom (1908)

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
―Anais Nin

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”
―Rabindranath Tagore

“You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows”
―Bob Dylan

Source/Notes:
Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
―Thomas Edison

“This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.”
―Barack Obama

Source/Notes:
Change We Can Believe In (2008 edition), Canongate Books - ISBN: 9781847674548

“When the praying does no good, insurance does help.”
―Bertolt Brecht

“... militarism... is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.”
―Helen Keller

“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
―Theodor Adorno

“It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them.”
―Pierre Beaumarchais

Source/Notes:
The Barber of Seville (1773)

“Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?”
―William Shakespeare

“What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.”
―Alfred de Vigny

“To be loved is very demoralizing.”
―Katharine Hepburn

“Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.”
―Robert Kennedy

Source/Notes:
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)

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