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If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#hate #jainism #love #sympathy #thought

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest. ↗

— John Marston

#danger #rest #safety #through #trouble

If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#any #content #dollar #kind #natural

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#i #pitch #probably #stage #think

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#before #big #dance #entire #films

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage. ↗

— John Mayer

#honest #just #open #start #then

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns. ↗

— Will McDonough

#athlete #basketball #brown #browns #ever

It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#leadership

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse? ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#first #how #job #king #minister