There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you ― Robert Frost

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Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

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Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big. - Deng Xiaoping

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ― Philip Pullman

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Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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remember to look up at the stars

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.- Aristotle

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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. - William Shakespeare

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