“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
― You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.”
― Thoughts in Solitude
― Thoughts in Solitude
“No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. For English is a language that simply cannot be fixed, not can its use ever be absolutely laid down. It changes constantly; it grows with an almost exponential joy. It evolves eternally; its words alter their senses and their meanings subtly, slowly, or speedily according to fashion and need.”
― The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
― The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
“Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays—they are all in this one book.”
― The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
― The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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