“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
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“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Variant: Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Context: O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
“Begum Rokeya had dreamt of a society where women would be magistrates, judges and barristers”
Begum Rokeya (1880–1932) Bengali feminist writer and social worker
Context: Begum Rokeya had dreamt of a society where women would be magistrates, judges and barristers and that has come true as many women are already there in such posts.
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena
Source: Letters to Milena
“It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none.”
Snoop Dogg (1971) American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor
“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”
Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor
Source: Biography
“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Trump: How to Get Rich (2004), p. 74
2000s
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore
“I'm walking on the sky I see the moon I see the light”
Gigi D'Agostino (1967) Italian DJ
Suono Libero
Source: da Walking n° 15 cd 1
“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee…”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.”
Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer
“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
