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Earthrise was the most beautiful sight Borman had ever seen, the only color visible in all the cosmos. The planet just hung there, a jewel on black velvet, and it struck him that everything he loved—Susan, the boys, his parents, his
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“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“When you’ve lived in a cage, you can’t bear not to run, even if what you’re running towards is an illusion.”
― Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
― Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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