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People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#always #better #days #great #i

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ask #birds #cherries #children #how

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#carrying #character #feel #great #little

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#be different #born #different #later #man

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#everywhere #flash #joy #life #our

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#certainly #cold #cold war #communication #could

Repotting a plant gives it space to grow. Repotting ourselves means taking leave of our everyday environments and walking into unfamiliar territory—of the heart, of the mind and of the spirit. It isn’t easy. The older we get, the more likely we are to have remained in the same place for some time. We stay because it’s secure. We know the boundaries and, inside of them, we feel safe. Our roots cling to the walls we have long known. But remaining inside can keep us from thriving. Indeed, without new experiences or ideas, we slowly grow more and more tightly bound, eventually turning into less vibrant versions of who we might have been. Repotting means accepting that the way is forward, not back. It means realizing that we won’t again fit into our old shells. But that’s not failure. That’s living. ↗

— Heather Cochran

#experience

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#consist #does #fact #her #moralist

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer. ↗

— Bill Goldberg

#give #i #information #observer #say

And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ads #campaign #did #enough #football