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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#conservative #proposes #radical #resists #valuable

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#acceptance #age #always #around #attached

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#always #believe #childhoods #craziest #ever

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#art #better #forms #genuine #greatest

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#although #care #diligence #judgment #knowledge

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#language #life #may #modern #shall

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work. ↗

— Charles Durning

#i #only #stage #work #would

We’ve been told prettiness will somehow make us better—and more loved. Do we really want to bear the mark of physical beauty? Or do we just want to be loved? ↗

— Kate Wicker

#body-image #love #beauty

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #insult #like #old #old age

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#change #change the world #facts #get #happened