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At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. ↗

— Robert Caro

#feel #higher #life #like #outside

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#disciples #expect #gave #gospel #himself

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it. ↗

— Tom Felton

#build #building #down #ever #how

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going. ↗

— Tom Felton

#been #before #crazy #even #getting

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#better #communicate #effort #even #lazy

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life. ↗

— Robert Caro

#feel #get #harder #into #life

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. ↗

— Robert Caro

#american people #did #every #johnson #live

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out. ↗

— Steven Chu

#anything #boundaries #degrees #geographical #going

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that. ↗

— Robert Caro

#city #create #doing #endures #everything