“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
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“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
Tyranny of the Status Quo, San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1980) p. 115
“I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.”
Source: Común Magazine.
https://revistacomun.com/blog/cuando-el-mundial-dejo-de-representar-al-mundo/
Source: Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak
“The sadness will last forever.”
Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm
Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying
1890s
Joe Hisaishi, who wrote music for Hayao Miyazaki's films https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1780283/studio-ghibli-composer-joe-hisaishi-talks-about-how,South China Morning Post
“There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.”
The Man Who Sold the Moon (p. 100)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“We don't need to worry
'Cause when we fall, we know how to land”
Source: Song Permission to Dance
“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”
Variant: I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)
“Absurdity is what I like most in life.”
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2000-08-25, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132,
2000s, 2000-04
Quoted from Larry King Weekend, Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (2002-05-12) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/lklw.00.html
“In England everything is the other way round.”
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
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