#athoughtfortoday

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"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (20th November 1923-2014)

#athoughtfortoday #nadine gordimer #truth #beauty #hunger

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"I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful."

John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8th February 1819-1900)

#athoughtfortoday #john ruskin #humility #respect #mercy

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"There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous."

Raymond Thornton Chandler, writer (23rd July 1888-1959)

#athoughtfortoday #Raymond Thornton Chandler #truth #science #art

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"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without."

Ernest Hemingway, author, journalist, Nobel Laureate (21st July 1899-1961)

#athoughtfortoday #ernest hemingway #sobriety #simplicity #estheticism

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"One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it."

Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (19th November 1909-2005)

#athoughtfortoday #peter drucker #baggage #play on words

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"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Paul Dirac, theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (8th August 1902-1984)

#athoughtfortoday #paul dirac #science #poetry #information

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"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"

Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (29th December 1876-1973)

#athoughtfortoday #pablo casals #love #patriotism #globalism

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"We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away."

Walker Percy, author (28th May 1916-1990)

#athoughtfortoday #walker percy #love #familiarity #loyalty

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"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."

Leigh Hunt, poet and essayist (19th October 1784-1859)

#athoughtfortoday #leigh hunt #duplicity #denial #greed

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"Dreams heed no borders, the eyes need no visas. With eyes shut I walk across the line in time. All the time."

Gulzar, poet, lyricist, and film director (b. 18th August 1934)

#athoughtfortoday #gulzar #dream #sight #borders

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"You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty."

Phil Ochs, folksinger (19th December 1940-1976)

#athoughtfortoday #phil ochs #poetry #protest #beauty

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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

James Baldwin, writer (2nd August 1924-1987)

#athoughtfortoday #james baldwin #adversity #reading #universality

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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (22nd November 1819-1880)

#athoughtfortoday #george eliot #mary ann evans #loneliness #distrust

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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)

#athoughtfortoday #honore de balzac #mother #forgiveness #love

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"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11th August 1833-1899)

#athoughtfortoday #Robert Green Ingersoll #courage #conscience #consequences

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"Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him."

Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23rd March 1900-1980)

#athoughtfortoday #erich fromm #understanding #accusations #judgemental