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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#doomed #every #growth #ignorance #knowledge

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#duty #effect #false #life-time #loom

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #chiefly #enjoy #give #great

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#ago #allows #back #being #being quiet

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#festival #film #film festival #listen #right

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#compass #conscience #far #great #however

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#forever #found #ideal #made #much

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#cuts #down #eager #every #fruit

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ask #critics #does #dog #dogs

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#big #big fan #dying #everybody #fan