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- Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!
- William McDonough, Fortune Brainstorm Conference, 2006
- The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off... They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating. - Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980), The Sane Society
- The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the inteligent or the dull.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Caligula
- Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - )
- When you kill one enemy, you then must plan for the one hundred enemies you have now created. No enemy ever stands alone. He comes with a mother and father, brothers and sisters. He has a wife and children, friends and neighbors. When you kill this enemy, you must be ready to face the angry revenge that comes from the grief of this loss for all the people who knew and loved this man. The only way to stop this endless chain of enemy killing enemy is to forgive it. And in doing so, teach each one that life is the most important, precious and valuable thing.
- Anwarshah Anwary, Freedom-A Journey Through Afghanistan-The Anwarshah Anwary Story
- Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Notre-Dame de Paris
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