"Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows."

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“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”

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“Silence is the severest criticism.”

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— Max Scheler

Philosophy1874–1928

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"The ancient intuition that all matter, all “reality,” is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled si…"

— Peter Matthiessen

Literature1927–2014

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"What terrible moments does one feel after one has engaged for a large work! In the beginning of my translating the Iliad, I wished any body would hang me a hundred times. It sat so heavily on my mind …"

— Alexander Pope

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"For me and for many others, Mengistu was the best choice for several reasons. He had come from a poor family background and was not an Amhara, the dominant ethnic group under Haile Selassie. As a pers…"

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

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