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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.

Quote by Winston Churchill about intelligence, use, time

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie, the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

Quote by Francis Parkman about opinion, air, sky, light

Nothing to understand: you open the book passing your soul over its old parchment a pale light starts suddenly flowing a poisoned spear falls down bloody wars corpses ever more deeply slashed in ever greater numbers until they are...

Quote by Otilia Nicolescu about poetry, numbers, nothing, light, soul, old, olderness, death, spirit, life

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