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- In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self Reliance
- Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.
- Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Speaker for the Dead
- Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. - Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593), Doctor Faustus scene 13
- I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
- Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
- Music lives in three tenses at once. Developing what comes before it in the past, it engages us in the present, and inspires our hopes for its future.
- Warren Benson, Professor of Composition at The Eastman School of Music
- A revolution is a struggle between the past and the future.
- Fidel Castro (1927 - )
- If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.
- Fidel Castro (1927 - )
- The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883), Thesis 11
- My life closed twice before its' close-
It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
- Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
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