User:Pjoef/Quotes

MotD, quotes, greetings....


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“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.” ~ Alexander Pope (1688–1744) An Essay on Criticism, Part II (1711)

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“You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.” ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Clio's Protest (1819)

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“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” ~ Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824) Don Juan, Canto III (1819–1824)

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“The sentiment of art like the religious sentiment, like scientific curiosity, is born of wonder; the man who wonders at nothing lives in a state of imbecility and stupidity.” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) Lectures on Aesthetics: Symbolic Art (1826)

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“If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all;” ... “Experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.” ~ Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) Letter to His Father (1837)

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“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.” ~ Saint Ernesto Che Guevara, Comandante Amigo! (14 June 1928, Rosario, Argentina – 9 October 1967, La Higuera, Bolivia) Letter in reply to a letter from a certain Señora María Rosario Guevara from Casablanca asking of his origins (1964)

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“''You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, live peace, and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.''” ~ John Lennon (1940–1980) Statement to the press in July 1969 after the release of the Plastic Ono Band's single "Give Peace a Chance"

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“When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.” ~ Peter Handke (6 December 1942) "Song of Childhood", Der Himmel über Berlin (1987)

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“''Follow your dreams. Don't let anything stop you!” ~ Brenden Foster (October 4, 1997 – November 21, 2008) Rest in peace Brenden''