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"Still in the early life of FDR before his presidency. So much to learn about this period.
Was disappointed to read about his affairs, but then moved by how he started adjusting his life to his polio diagnosis." — Jan 02, 2026 09:54AM
"Still in the early life of FDR before his presidency. So much to learn about this period.
Was disappointed to read about his affairs, but then moved by how he started adjusting his life to his polio diagnosis." — Jan 02, 2026 09:54AM
Its education system was turning out too many classicists and not enough engineers and scientists.
“As Duke Ellington once said, “There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind.” In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to “good” music transcends questions of genre.”
― Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
― Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
“At the moment I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930
“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
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“Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s day to day living that wears you out.”
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“Hustling is to work what surfing the Internet is to reading. If you add up how much you read in a year on the Internet—tweets, Facebook posts, lists—you’ve read the equivalent of a shit ton of books, but in fact you’ve read no books in a year.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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