"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

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Aesop

#Life Quotes #Appearance Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.”

Source : "NASA Investigation Finds No Drunken Astronauts" by Ashley Phillips, abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2008.
“Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.”
“After 9/11, we had this "terrorist-Muslim-threat" in the US but at the same time, next to that, in Holland we had this growing awareness that the so-called integration of new Dutch people, a lot of those that had come to live and work in our country originated from countries such as Turkey and Morocco, and a lot of them are actually Muslim, wasn't quite the success the state always had thought it was. The "new" Dutch didn't feel totally accepted, treated as second-rate citizens, and parts of the "old" Dutch suddenly believed that the new ones were trying to destroy our society.”
“Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.”
“What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.”
“The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.”
“As far as my personal life my go to person is my husband.”
“The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. . . . The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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