Tan Quotes
[http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang/ Article in The Idler Magazine] - broken link, see: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090718214232/http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang Internet Archive copy] instead
Lin Yutang
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You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter;
And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry.
Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding.
Your voice mothered their words and their breath.
Kahlil Gibran
There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard
[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049584/al-Maarri Profile in Encyclopædia Britannica]
Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Tishani Doshi
Believe me, I loved you all.
Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you
All.
Gwendolyn Brooks
In all things have no preferences.
Miyamoto Musashi
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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.
U. G. Krishnamurti
Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
Immanuel Kant
I am CoCo Lee and it has been 27 years since my debut. No matter how big I stand on the international stage, I can still proudly say that I am Chinese and I am from Hong Kong, China.
Wang Leehom
Although she was primarily a particle theorist, her most important work may well be her contribution to our understanding of superconductivity. She was a trailblazer for and, in her retirement, led the effort to chronicle the contributions of women to physics in the 20th century.
Émilie du Châtelet
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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
Felix Dennis
Three themes were extracted from the analysis: An unpleasant practice, Importance of coping, and Becoming desensitised and sensitised. It is important to consider these themes in relation to the 5-36 month difference within the experience level of nursing assistants.
Mariam A. Jamal
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.
Kailash Satyarthi
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4: I don't care anymore about looking perfect, it's so overrated! And 5: I don't need a nose job or blond hair, 'cause my sex-god boyfriend likes me JUST the way I am! Result!
Gurinder Chadha
With the aim of creating good relations between the people of Bangladesh and Pakistan, Pakistani journalist Sadia and I have created the "Pak Bangla connect" YouTube channel. Everyone is requested to subscribe to the channel.
Sadia Sheikh