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Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow."

Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us. Derrick Jensen
When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. Clive Cussler
Marco Polo quote: "My heart beats as much as I can breathe."
My heart beats as much as I can breathe. Marco Polo
Sigmund Freud quote: "Time spent with cats is never wasted."
Time spent with cats is never wasted. Sigmund Freud
I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure. Jonathan Franzen
Tom Stoppard quote: "If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice."
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Thomas Tryon quote: "Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured..."
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WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE. Terry Prachett
Andre Gide quote: "Not everyone can be an orphan."
Not everyone can be an orphan. Andre Gide
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. Axel Munthe
Keith Urban quote: "Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. Keith Urban
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. Roy Hattersley
C. S. Lewis quote: "100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. C. S. Lewis
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After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it. Graham Nash
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