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It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

View quotes by Eric Hoffer

The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.
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He has been an endless source of amusement, especially for the Yorkshire boys. They have never heard anybody speak before like Ed. At the crease he looks a million dollars, which is probably what he has got tucked away somewhere. [on Ed Smith]
View quotes by Mark Butcher

I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.
View quotes by Samuel Butler

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
View quotes by Sophia Loren

It's [music] a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
View quotes by Cecilia Bartoli

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large
View quotes by Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn

The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.
View quotes by Bill Gates

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
View quotes by Harold Abelson

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
View quotes by Dave Barry

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.
View quotes by E T Bell

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
View quotes by Erma Bombeck

On Kevin Spacey (L.A. Confidential): 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'
View quotes by Russell Crowe

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson

Because every punter has to register full identity details to open an account with exchanges, and sign a declaration allowing the authorities access to that account, it is more likely that we are today seeing the results of this extra source of intelligence. [on scandals in betting]
View quotes by J A McGrath

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
View quotes by Bertrand Russell

Anybody on for a game of tennis? [source of Anyone for tennis?]
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm. (La Nouvelle Heloise)
View quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the 'creative' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
View quotes by Mary Sarton

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