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American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

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Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

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„The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!“

— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Love, World

„It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.“

— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Thinking

„Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."
A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."
Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.“

— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse

Beauty, Star, Tear, Night

„Percy, let me go" she croaked. "You can't pull me up."
His face was white with effort. She could see in his eyes that he knew it was hopeless.
"Never," he said. He looked up at Nico, fifteen feet above.
"The other side, Nico! We'll see you there. Understand?"
Nico's eyes widened. "But-"
"Lead them!" Percy shouted. "Promise me!"
"I-I will."
Below them, the voice laughed in the darkness. Sacrifices. Beautiful sacrifices to wake the goddess.
Percy tightened his grip on Annabeth's wrist. His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome.
"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."
Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall.
"As long as we're together," she said.
She heard Nico and Hazel still screaming for help. She saw sunlight far, far above- maybe the last sunlight she would ever see.
Then Percy let go of his ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.“

— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

Beauty, Way, Understanding, Effort

„The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.“

— Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese explorer 1480 - 1521
This quotation is often found on the internet attributed to Magellan, but never with a source, and no English occurrence prior to its use by Robert Green Ingersoll in his essay "Individuality" http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/individuality.html (1873) has been located. Thus, it it most likely spurious. In that essay Ingersoll states:

Faith

„To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. “

— Tom Watson American businessman 1874 - 1956

Business, Success, Heart

„It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.“

— Aldous Huxley, Island

Learning, Past, Forgetting

„God's great work in man takes place in the Interior.“

— Francisco Palau Beatified Spanish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest 1811 - 1872
Context: God's great work in man takes place in the Interior. The order that appears and is shown outside is the work and effect of the order inside.

God

„... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.“

— Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

Appearance

„Think different and then again.“

— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011

Thinking

„Where There is a will
there is a will
to search and discover
a better day

Where a positive heart
is all you need
to rise beyond
and succeed

Where young minds grow
and respect each other
based on their deeds
and not their color

when times are dim
say as I say
"Where there's a will
there's a way!“

— Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Color, Way, Search, Time

„I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

„Chorus: O suitably attired in leather boots
Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom
Whence by what way how purposed art thou come
To this well-nightingaled vicinity?
My object in inquiring is to know.
But if you happen to be deaf and dumb
And do not understand a word I say,
Nod with your hand to signify as much.
Alcmaeon: I journeyed hither a Boeotian road.
Chorus: Sailing on horseback or with feet for oars?
Alcmaeon: Plying by turns my partnership of legs.
Chorus: Beneath a shining or a rainy Zeus?
Alcmaeon: Mud's sister, not himself, adorns my shoes.
Chorus: To learn your name would not displease me much.
Alcmaeon: Not all that men desire do they attain.“

— A.E. Housman English classical scholar and poet 1859 - 1936
"Fragment of a Greek Tragedy". This parody was first written in 1883, but quoted here from a revised version of 1927.

Men, Art, Shoe, Way