Ann VoskampRomantic Get this, kids – how a man proposes isn’t what makes him romantic. It’s how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic. – Ann Voskamp Kids Quotes Lay Quotes Life Quotes Proposes Quotes Purposes Quotes Romantic Quotes The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.
BusinessGalileo Galilei I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters. – Galileo Galilei
Michel de Montaigne Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. – Michel de Montaigne
Aaron Swartz Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate’s truest champion of an open Internet. – Aaron Swartz
AlonePaul Thomas Anderson It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. – Paul Thomas Anderson
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