“Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.”
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Retro Quote – Charles Baudelaire
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Retro Quote – Tennessee Williams
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street. But the human heart? Oh, no. It’s curved like a road through the mountains.”
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Retro Quote – John Milton
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Retro Quote – Lyndon B. Johnson
“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created not just as it looked when we got through with it.”
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Retro Quote – Mark Victor Hansen
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
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Retro Quote – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.”
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Retro Quote – Paul Tillich
“Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.”
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Retro Quote – Henry Van Dyke
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Retro Quote – Barbara Jordan
“Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.”
Barbara Jordan
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Retro Quote – Abraham Lincoln
“If my name ever goes down into history, it’ll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.”
Abraham Lincoln, upon signing the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year’s Day 1865
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