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“People don't understand how important it is for funk to be funky, the only way to do that is to allow space to happen. Space is the most important part of music, it's the space that allows the song to breathe that's so important.”

Sheila E. (1957) American singer and percussionist

On her collaboration with Prince on the song “Erotic City” in “An Interview with the Legendary Sheila E” https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/z4ngbx/an-interview-with-the-legendary-sheila-e in Vice Magazine (2016 Dec 18)

Understanding, People, Music, Way

“You can’t part the waters without making some waves.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

Water, Making love, Parting

“The Phoenicians who from their sagacity and learning possess great insight into things divine, hold the doctrine that this universally diffused radiance is a part of the "Soul of the Stars."”

Julian (emperor) (331–363) Roman Emperor, philosopher and writer

This opinion is consistent with sound reason: if we consider the light that is without body, we shall perceive that of such light the source cannot be a body, but rather the simple action of a mind, which spreads itself by means of illumination as far as its proper seat; to which the middle region of the heavens is contiguous, from which place it shines forth with all its vigour and fills the heavenly orbs, illuminating at the same time the whole universe with its divine and pure radiance.
Upon the Sovereign Sun (362)

Soul, Star, Learning, Universe

“For my own part I am deeply convinced that all excess in the public expenditure beyond the legitimate wants of the country is not only a pecuniary waste—for that is a comparatively trifling matter—but a great political and a great moral evil. It is a characteristic of the mischief which arise from financial prodigality, that they creep onwards with a noiseless and surreptitious step; that they are unseen and unfelt until they have reached a magnitude absolutely overwhelming, and then at length, we see them, as perhaps they now exist in the case of one at least among the great European nations, so fearful and menacing in their aspect that they seem to threaten the very foundations of national existence.”

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1861/apr/15/first-night#column_595 in the House of Commons (15 April 1861) 1860s

Parting, Fear, Evil, Country

“Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can.”

Peter Singer book The Most Good You Can Do

Preface (p. vii)
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (2015)

World, Life, Making love, Parting

“It’d be important to be able to communicate with part of our country that speaks French — I love Quebec, I love Quebecers.”

Doug Ford (1964) 26th Premier of Ontario

When asked about learning French during the 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2018/11/28/doug-ford-discovers-the-franco-ontarians-he-never-knew.html 2018

Country, Love, Making love, Parting

“I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of its peoples. Great single endeavors like a League of Nations, a United Nations, and undertakings of that character, are of great importance and in fact absolutely necessary, but they must be treated as steps toward the desired end.”

George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff

Essentials to Peace (1953)

Problem, Peace, Understanding, People

“People always criticize. If they want to, they will find something to criticize. Hey, we all criticize. You like a film or you don’t. It’s up to you. You can’t stop that anyway. That’s part of human nature”

Nancy Kwan (1939) Chinese-American actress and restauranter

How Nancy Kwan Went From Ballet to the Big Screen https://www.shondaland.com/live/a22986681/nancy-kwan-interview/ (September 11, 2018)

People, Parting, Nature

“Surrounded by hordes of people, busy with all sorts of secular matters, more and more shrewd about the ways of the world - such a person forgets himself, forgets his name divinely understood, does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too risky to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, part of the crowd.”

Sören Kierkegaard book The Sickness unto Death

Source: The Sickness unto Death

“I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, however imperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence.
We live in order to finish an, as yet, unfinished universe, unfinished so far as the human, that is, the highest part of it, is concerned. We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Life and Destiny (1913)

Parting, Law, Evil, Universe

“A further reason why industrial society cannot be reformed in favor of freedom is that modern technology is a unified system in which all parts are dependent on one another. You can’t get rid of the "bad" parts of technology and retain only the "good" parts.”

Theodore Kaczynski book Industrial Society and Its Future

The ‘Bad’ Parts of Technology Cannot Be Separated From the ‘Good’ Parts, paragraph 121
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

Bad luck, Freedom, Parting, Dependency

“I’m not sure there’s really that much of a separation between imagination and reality when it comes to creatures. My inspiration is almost always from something nature has created. Nature is relentless and astonishingly diverse in the amount and variety of life it presents. It’s really what parts you put together and how far from reality you want to go when you design creatures.”

Chris Walas (1955) American special effects artist and film director

Imagination, Reality, Life, Parting

“I try to never lose that part of me because I know that in the beginning, when you come to a new country, you want to feel comfortable and feel normal, but now as I get older, all I want to do is get back to it. It’s fun finding that balance in my journey.”

Odeya Rush (1997) Israeli actress

INTERVIEW: LET IT SNOW’S ODEYA RUSH https://brieftake.com/interview-let-it-snow-odeya-rush/ (November 8, 2019)

Feeling, Parting, Country

“As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or you can go the other way. You protect yourself by opening up. You don't ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you're willing to share. For me it was humor. I learned that even though I didn't belong to one group, I could be a part of of any group that was laughing.”

Trevor Noah book Born a Crime

page 140/141
Born a Crime

Way, Parting, Learning

“Public economy is part of public virtue.”

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom

Letter to Welby (26 October 1887), quoted in Anthony Howe, Free Trade and Liberal England 1846–1946 (1997), p. 19
1880s

Parting

“There was no knowledge on my part about his specific actions, but… There was just energy. And that type of sinister, shadow energy cannot be concealed
..
When your primary male figure couldn't care less to show up, that can become a theme in your life where you’re trying to fill this gap with these different men”

Lisa Bonet (1967) American actress

9 March 2018 https://www.net-a-porter.com/en-gb/porter/article-33a55e73f6c7ac7b/cover-stories/cover-stories/lisa-bonet?cm_mmc=Twitter-_-Magazine-_-20180309&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&siteID=TnL5HPStwNw-I7e_rfvO9ni1Csr6IiWfpw&Skimlinks.com=Skimlinks.com interview regarding Bill Cosby

Knowledge, Life, Parting, Men

“This war torments me. Again and again I ask if it could have been avoided and what I should have done differently. ... [A]ll nations are guilty; Germany, too, bears a large part of the blame.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Remarks to Conrad Haussmann (24 February 1918), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 48

War, Parting

“I can understand that people get overwhelmed very quickly when you start to talk about an enormous issue like climate change. But I suggest they just choose one change and implement that in their lives, such as deciding not to eat bluefin tuna or shrimp anymore because it’s unsustainable. Then when that becomes simply part of your life, chose something else to implement. Make informed choices and make them part of your everyday life and don’t assume others are doing it for you.”

Céline Cousteau (1972) French-American explorer, filmmaker, and diver

300 Seconds with Céline S. Cousteau NOW talks to the filmmaker and explorer https://www.itmustbenow.com/feature/movers-mavericks/5-minutes-celine-s-cousteau/ (December 2018)

Understanding, Life, Making love, People

“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

Past, Decision, Life, Parting

“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

Personality, Life, Wisdom, Parting

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.”

Stewart Brand (1938) American writer

Parting

“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”

Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) actor, director, producer, screenwriter

Wisdom, Parting

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”

Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian

Happiness, Wisdom, Parting

“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Silence, Parting, Peaceful

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”

Martha Washington (1731–1802) First Lady of the United States

Dependency, Happiness, Parting

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Friendship, Life, Parting, Friendship

“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

Parting, Friendship, Cute, For Friend

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Idea, Success, Dreams, Thinking

“Many generations create a common good. We are only a part of that sequence of generations.”

Egils Levits (1955) Latvian judge, jurist and politician

Source: Address given Assuming the Office / at the Saeima

Parting

“Hotness was a part of the human condition and it was pointless to pretend that it did not exist.”

Neal Stephenson book Seveneves

“Day 700” (p. 276)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

Parting

“The pleasing part is not that you say things that people want to hear but that your message is attractive to people and they want to engage it.”

Christopher J. Coyne (1958) Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the United States

A Bishop Who Tweets, Podcasts and Talks to the Flock From His Car https://aleteia.org/2016/02/01/a-bishop-who-tweets-podcasts-and-talks-to-the-flock-from-his-car/ (2016)

People, Parting

“If a demarcation criterion exists (we must not, I think, seek a sharp or decisive one), it may lie just in that part of science which Sir Karl ignores.”

Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) American historian, physicist and philosopher

"Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?", Criticism and the growth of knowledge edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (1970)

Lie, Thinking, Decision, Science

“To be a famous woman is to constantly have every part of your body and soul subjected to endless critique. You know, if you're one pound overweight they call you "fatty."”

Natalie Wynn ContraPoints

If you're one pound underweight they say you have an eating disorder. And if you're exactly the right weight? They call you a fatty with an eating disorder! J.K. Rowling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us, published 2021-01-26 ContraPoints

Soul, Parting

“You do what you can with what you've got, but you also have to know you're part in the ensemble. If you have no lines, you can't be in the background trying to steal the scene.”

Claudette Mink (1971) Canadian actress

HitFix Interview: 'Harper's Island's' deceased Single Girl and Stepmother speak Amber Borycki and Claudette Mink discuss their recent 'Harper's Island' demise https://web.archive.org/web/20090618163737/http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2009-6-16-hitfix-interview-harper-s-island-s-deceased-single-girl-and-stepmother-speak (June 18, 2009)

Parting

“Is China a part of the world? Yes. Therefore, our insistence on globalisation also includes the domestic market. We cannot be closed. We must stay open.”

Ren Zhengfei (1944) Chinese businessman

Speech at Huawei’s internal online forum (June 26, 2021)

World, Parting

“I believe a key part of being successful in our industry is constantly reinventing yourself.”

Vladimer Botsvadze

Success, Parting

“The economy as an instituted process of interaction serving the satisfaction of material wants forms a vital part of every human community. Without an economy in this sense, no society could exist for any length of time.”

Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) economist, philosopher and historian

Source: The Livelihood of Man (1977), Ch. 2 : The Two Meanings of Economic

Communication, Time, Parting, Sense

“No one can imagine an India without Islam and Muslims... If there is any need to sacrifice, I am also part of that. Now let’s see whose hand has more power, us or that murderer”

Mani Shankar Aiyar (1941) Indian politician

Narendra Modi Quoted in https://www.opindia.com/2020/01/mani-shankar-aiyar-shaheen-bagh-anti-caa-pakistan-visit-katil/ and in Nupur Sharma, Delhi Anti-Hindu Riots 2020 (2020).

Imagination, Parting

“For the young people now, the going to the concert or the going to follow some big stars - unfortunately, now, you know, they don't want message anymore. They want be a part of economic developing. They don't care about message now.”

Cui Jian (1961) Chinese rock musician of Korean descent

Interview with CNN (2012)

Star, People, Parting

“True love is to always put the person in every place where you feel part of you in the first place.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Il vero amore consiste nel mettere sempre al primo posto la persona che in ogni dove senti far parte di te.
Source: prevale.net

Personality, Love, Feeling, Parting

“Dare to call it madness only if you felt part of it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Abbiate il coraggio di chiamarla follia solo se vi sentiste parte di essa.
Source: prevale.net

Madness, Parting

“One of the greatest errors in the reconstruction of another era lies in our tendency to think of them as being like ourselves in feeling and attitudes. Actually, without considerable study on the part of a present-day man — if he were confronted by a fifteenth-century man — there would be no possible communication. I think it is possible through knowledge and discipline for a modern man to understand, and, to a certain extent, live into a fifteenth-century mind, but the reverse would be completely impossible.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Appendix, letter to Elizabeth Otis and Chase Horton (14 March 1958)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

Communication, Understanding, Knowledge, Thinking

“Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. I have spent the greater part of my life fluctuating between Archie Leach and Cary Grant; unsure of either, suspecting each. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”

Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor

Source: Quoted in "Cary Grant: A Biography" by Marc Eliot

Personality, Life, Parting

“The musical note is the language of intelligence. Intelligence speaks wherever there is poetry, music and song. Colour is part of it. We love colours because we come from colour. Colour and sound.”

J. Posadas (1912–1981) Argentine Trotskyist (1912-1981)

On the Socialist Future of Humanity, 1981

Intelligence, Music, Love, Parting

“The forms under which human love ends up being expressed are not governed by sex relations. They are governed by the objective love for humanity; that is to say love for humankind as an integral part of nature and of the universe.”

J. Posadas (1912–1981) Argentine Trotskyist (1912-1981)

Source: Childbearing in Space, 1978

Universe, Nature, Sex, Love

“I will not be able to do anything until the air fields are captured and supplied with fuel, oil, ammunition, bombs, spare parts, and all the necessary ground personnel.”

James Doolittle (1896–1993) United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

In a response to General Dwight Eisenhower on the plans for the 1942 invasion of North Africa, as quoted in 1980 interview, "Jimmy Doolittle Reminiscences About World War II" https://www.historynet.com/jimmy-doolittle-reminiscences-about-world-war-ii.htm

Parting

“I like doing scary parts, death-stares. Being in the film industry I know it's fake.”

Cainan Wiebe (1995) Canadian actor

Cainan Wiebe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LujoHrgs4Qw (February 21, 2011)

Death, Parting

“I find all of our world society is operating exclusively in parts. We know this because the word synergy is unknown popularly and it is the only word that means “behavior of wholes unpredicted by behavior of their parts.””

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

This proves that society does not even think that it has a need for such a word. This discloses that society does not think that there are behaviors of wholes unpredicted by the parts. It thinks statistics and probability are all that we need but if “probability” and “statistics” were of any power at all we could not have a stock market or gambling for we would know exactly how things are coming out and no one would bet against the probability.
1960s, Presentation to U.S. Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game (1969)

World, Behavior, Parting

“Life is a play acted by dying men,
Where, if its heroes seem to foot it well
And go light-tongued without grimace of pain,
Death will be found anon. And who shall tell
Which part was saddest, or in youth or age,
When the tired actor stops and leaves the stage?”

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) English poet and writer

'Esther, A Young Man's Tragedy" (1892), Sonnet II http://www.sonnets.org/esther.htm

Pain, Light, Youth, Age

“Nothing could have prepared me for the reality of the situation here. Now that I am experiencing these things with you in real life, It’s as if these fairy tales left out the most interesting parts of their stories.”

Suraj Sani (1996) Nigerian writer, Spoken word artist

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10937455-nothing-could-have-prepared-me-for-the-reality-of-the/

Reality, Life, Parting

“Every crusader is apt to go mad. He is haunted by the wickedness which is attributed to his enemies; it becomes in some sort a part of him.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Aldous Huxley, The Devils of London Chatto & Windus, London, (1951) p. 274

Madness, Parting

“Your first question must always be: what is the most difficult part of this problem that I am trying to solve and then try and solve that. If you can't solve the most difficult bit, give up! Seek advice, find somebody who can solve it!”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

Question, Problem, Parting

“How to make a list? Collecting the data, that's the easy bit. Sorting it into categories is slightly more difficult. Shortening the list is the most difficult part. That a really difficult problem.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

Problem, Parting

“Molecules move not only from the brain to the endocrine system but also from the endocrine system, indeed, from all parts of the body to the brain.”

Richard Bergland neuroscientist

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

Parting

“I wouldn’t claim to have mastered my craft, part of the fun is that you are continually learning and reinventing yourself.”

Nick Brimble (1944) British actor

Nick Brimble Interview https://trainwreckdsociety.com/2017/07/19/nick-brimble-interview/ (July 19, 2017)

Learning, Parting

“What does the Lord save us from? Sickness, problems, daily life concerns, difficult circumstances that each of us face! These all are part of the salvation because salvation is ultimate and comprehensive. It touches upon the inner self.”

Paul Marwan Tabet (1961)

Fifteenth letter of His Excellency Bishop Paul-Marwan Tabet To the Maronite Community of Canada Christmas https://www.maronitecalgary.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Christmas-Letter-2020-Bishop-Tabet.pdf (December 2020)

Problem, Life, Parting

“There's a wild thing that exists in all of us. It lives in our passions, in the people we love, in our subconscious thoughts, our beliefs. It's even made a home in the darkest parts of us, but we can't be scared of it, we have to become it.”

Alessia Cara (1996) Canadian singer

"Wild Things" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De30ET0dQpQ, Know-It-All (2015), New York: Def Jam Recordings

Home, People, Passion, Love

“As writers we have to walk in the world in touch with that present, alert part of ourselves, that animal sense part that looks, sees, and notices - street signs, corners, fire hydrants, newspaper stands.”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

Essay, "Be an animal". p.91
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

World, Animals, Sense, Parting

“Philanthropy is part of our DNA - business-wise and family-wise.”

Sukanto Tanoto (1949) Indonesian businessman

CNBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBNr3punKw 2017

Family, Business, Parting

“You could heave a brick out of the window and hit ten actors who could play my parts. I just happened to be on the right corner at the right time.”

Boris Karloff (1887–1969) English actor

As quoted in "All He Needed Was a Good Scare" by Samuel Grafton, Good Housekeeping (August 1951), p. 136

Time, Parting

“I probably was the one out of the three of us that was like, ‘Let’s go, let’s get big, let’s get everybody.’ I wasn’t necessarily thinking about organizational structure... I was mostly thinking about building a mass movement that people can be a part of and feel an identity around.”

Opal Tometi (1984) Nigerian–American writer, strategist and community organizer

How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next, By Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone, (16 June 2020)

People, Thinking, Feeling, Parting

“All over the world, for those who are part of it, music, entertainment and art are a work of emotions: be grateful.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) In tutto il mondo, per chi ne fa parte, musica, intrattenimento ed arte sono un'opera di emozioni: siatene grati.
Source: prevale.net

Art, Music, World, Parting

“Hammer a piece of cold iron for a considerable time; you will unite its parts and diminish its bulk, and then it will appear heavier when put into the balance.”

John Rey (1583–1645) French chemist

Art. XI. A Translation of Rey's Essays on the Calcination of Metals, &c. (1822), Essay XV. Air dimishes in weight in three ways. The balance is deceitful, the means of remedying that.

Time, Appearance, Parting

“We turn on the faucet, the water comes out, we assume it's safe, and we assume that we are masters of our environment, rather than being part of it.”

Tyrone Hayes (1967) American biologist

The toxic baby https://www.ted.com/talks/tyrone_hayes_penelope_jagessar_chaffer_the_toxic_baby (December 2010)

Water, Parting

“Your spirit or attitude must be fearless in enjoying every part of worship and the companionship with the Creator.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Parting

“No human being can be immune to boasting. Even pretending you aren't bragging is already part of bragging.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Parting

“Of course, every organ in your body matters. Except your feet and your hands. You can still live without them. They are part of you, but not the real YOU.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Parting

“Only the soul, which is part of God, is qualified to be identified as the real You.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, Soul, Parting

“The Trinity must become unity, otherwise we will always be divided into many parts.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Parting

“This is a white man's country, with a white man's civilization and any dream on the part of the Negro race to share social and political equality will be shattered in the end.”

Theodore G. Bilbo (1877–1947) American politician

In a statement arguing that would have been practically impossible to prevent Hartfield's lynching
1919

Country, Dreams, Parting

“I spend a lot of time with my family. Because I think it's part of my life. I think the time...long or short is not the most important. I think the most important is the quality time...quality time with family.”

Jet Li (1963) Chinese martial artist and actor

As quoted in Jet Li Interview Transcript https://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/talkasia.li.script/ in CNN (January 29, 2003)

Family, Time, Thinking, Life

“My favorite part of my job is never having to doubt that I’m doing something of value. And I don’t mean this in the global sense; there are more practical ways to help people. But I do think that--and this may be selfish--I am working at something that’s making me a better human.”

Kirstin Chen Singaporean writer

As quoted in "Kirstin Chen Ventures Out Of Singapore With Novel Set In 1950s Maoist China" in Forbes (27 April 2018) https://www.forbes.com/sites/priscaang/2018/04/27/kirstin-chen/?sh=235a75302016

People, Way, Selfishness, Help

“In literature you don't just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms part. This affects the writer as much as it does the reader.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time

Literature, World, Reading, Parting

“We are all a beautiful jumble of layers, parts, and mixtures of experiences, but my most important part, and in my opinion everyone's most valuable part, is the one that chooses self-love instead of self-harm in the grand sweeping ways but also the little ways every single day.”

Jonathan Van Ness (1987) American hairstylist and television personality

page 262
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)

Beauty, Way, Love, Parting

“The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's part.”

Mary Baker Eddy book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 23

Parting

“People have this idea that I'm part of show business royalty. I cherish the relationship I had with my father, and I'd love to fulfill the fantasy. But when I was young, he was a working actor and hadn't quite made it yet.”

Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer

As quoted in "Michael Douglas Will Never Stop Working" in AARP (25 March 2021) https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2021/michael-douglas-interview.html

People, Idea, Business, Love

“The truth is respectful opposition is not the enemy, it’s an important part of a health a democracy.”

Peadar Tóibín (1974) Irish politician

Peadar Tóibín to host Waterford meeting about new party https://www.wlrfm.com/2019/01/21/peadar-toibin-to-host-waterford-meeting-about-new-party/ (January 21, 2019)

Democracy, Health, Truth, Parting

“What the virtues are to existential perfection, truths are to intellectual perfection; virtue is essentially simplicity, inward beauty, generosity, whereas truth, for its part, lies entirely in the discernment between the Real and the illusory or between the Absolute and the contingent.”

Frithjof Schuon book The Transfiguration of Man

[2005, The Transfiguration of Man, World Wisdom, 72, 978-0-94153219-8]
Spiritual life, Truth

Beauty, Perfection, Truth, Parting

“Maybe it’s because women feel they want to maintain some mystery that they’re not gross, to be more attractive or something. For me it’s all part of intimacy. That’s how I define intimacy – living closer and being more honest, closer to what your real desires are – and it’s exciting.”

Ali Wong (1982) American actress, comedian, and writer

On her views as to why women are reluctant to talk intimately about their bodies in “'God, I was disgusting!' – Ali Wong on why women's bodies are the last taboo” https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/oct/17/god-i-was-disgusting-ali-wong-on-why-womens-bodies-are-the-last-taboo in The Guardian (2019 Oct 17)

Women, Feeling, Parting

“I personally love auditioning. It's not just about that part: it's about getting to meet new people and really introducing myself to them - getting my name out there more than getting just that project.”

Claudia Kim (1985) South Korean actress

As quoted in "Discovery: Claudia Kim" in Interview Magazine (11 May 2015) https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/discovery-claudia-kim

Personality, People, Love, Parting

“I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.”

Kelly Marie Tran (1989) American actress

As quoted in "Star Wars Breakout Kelly Marie Tran on The Last Jedi and Kylo Ren’s Shirtless Scene" in Vulture (20 December 2017) https://www.vulture.com/2017/12/kelly-marie-tran-on-the-last-jedi-and-shirtless-kylo-ren.html

Forgetting, People, Parting, Love

“The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children, apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind, the lower animals.”

John Stuart Mill book Principles of Political Economy

Book V, Chapter 11, Section 9
Principles of Political Economy (1848-1871)

Children, Animals, Parting

“Natural selection has designed all parts of our bodies to last just long enough to see our children into independence, no more.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 14 “Immortality” (p. 202)

Children, Nature, Parting

“Disillusionment, pain, unpleasant surprise, all were part of growing up.”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 1 (p. 6)

Parting, Pain

“Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of wellbeing.”

Alfred Marshall book Principles of Economics

Bk I, Ch. I, Introduction
Principles of Economics, (1890)

Study, Business, Life, Parting

“The supermodels all have skeletal bodies . . . the very existence of their bodies expresses an attitude: the disdain for men. The more men like a certain part of their bodies, the less they want to grow that part. Fashion is such an attitude.”

Yang Li (1992) Chinese stand-up comedian

Source: "The Art of Telling the Truth: Chinese Female Stand-up Comedians" in World Literature Today https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/culture/art-telling-truth-chinese-female-stand-comedians-ping-zhu (1 February 2021)

Fashion, Parting, Men

“To be politically motivate and politically sensitive to what is happening around us is part of our responsibility as Church. We must educate people on this – this is an important area but since it is delicate area, we must be prudent in going about it.”

Antony Selvanayagam (1935) Catholic bishop

Source: Bishop Selvanayagam tells his story https://cj.my/74779/bishop-selvanayagam-tells-his-story/ (14 August 2012)

People, Motivation, Education, Parting

“Let go of a small part of your righteousness and in a few days you will be at peace.”

Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father

Saying 141

Peace, Parting

“Because of the nature of my work and because I was suffering from a grave ailment, my doctors advised me to take part in cultural activities to improve the balance of my sense of hearing and sense of sight. Thus, I came into contact with some literature and art.”

Jiang Qing (1914–1991) Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong

Source: Speech at the Reception for the Representatives of the Beijing Workers Propaganda Team and the People's Liberation Army Propaganda Team (14 September 1968)

Suffering, Literature, Nature, Art

“While I was in their city, it just seemed like such a mistake that I had ever left home, such an error in judgment in all our parts.”

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep (2005), p. 321

Home, Parting, Error

“Ten years is a long time to be a part of anything and to have a group of people in your life for any reason, let alone one that really was a part of my most formative years.”

Vincent Martella (1992) American actor

Source: Batman: Death in the Family's Vincent Martella Talks Reprising Jason Todd Role https://www.cbr.com/batman-death-in-the-family-jason-todd-interview/ (October 9, 2020)

Time, People, Life, Parting

“Books just don’t register with this crowd. They think I lack common sense; I think they lack a part of their souls.”

Maureen Corrigan (1955) American journalist and writer

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)
Source: Interlude, “Books, What a Jolly Company They Are” (p. 57)

Soul, Thinking, Books, Sense

“It is not only others who are to blame for all our evils. Nor will in any circumstances only others shape our destiny. And for the present situation we all bear part of the responsibility in our own way. And especially for the future: our personal, our vocation and our people.”

Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) Croatian politician, soldier and president

Source: Source https://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/11121999/prilozi.htm (1999)

Personality, People, Evil, Future

“In the longer run, some education in comparative religion is the solution, or at least a central part of the solution.”

Koenraad Elst book Ayodhya and After

Source: 1990s, Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991)

Religion, Education, Parting

“Doesn’t that sound like God to you? This big stupid, invulnerable thing that resembles us and whose creations are more intelligent than it is? The Bible left out that part, but it would explain a great deal.”

Lucius Shepard (1947–2014) writer

Source: Short fiction, The Skinny Girl (2011), p. 453

God, Intelligence, Stupidity, Parting

“Various classes of doctors and healers somewhat to look down upon each other and ignore respective merit. This habit must be superseded, of course, by co-operation, correlation and the growing understanding of the part that various types of healing play in their relation to one another...”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter XXXV The Opportunity Today

Understanding, Parting

“For the Chinese national revolution to succeed, the participation of the masses of all classes and the building of a united front of all classes are necessary. But among the classes taking part in the national revolution, the working class and the peasantry constitute the main force.”

Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969) 2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898-1969)

Source: "Mr. Liao Zhongkai and Worker and Peasant Policy" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1926/09/26.htm (26 September 1926)

Parting

“I might like to try things I haven’t attempted before, whether it’s working with new production teams or utilising my own ideas for innovative designs. I would enjoy a path like that, where I can take part in the creative process.”

Liu Wen (model) (1988) Chinese model

Source: "Liu Wen opens up about fame, responsibility and finding meaning in her career" in Vogue https://vogue.sg/liu-wen-cover-vogue-singapore-leslie-zhang/ (1 March 2021)

Idea, Parting

“[People].. would have become aware of the purpose and presence of God in every part of creation and in themselves, to such an extent that they would be incapable of separating ‘religion’ from science, education or government. The integration would have become complete.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter IV The Spiritual Cabinet

God, People, Education, Science

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