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Katherine Mansfield quote: "Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends..."

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.

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A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Vittorio Alfieri quote: "Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime."
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Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again. Thomas Hughes
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? Evangelista Torricelli
I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time." Matt Groening
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Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead.He who loves corruption rots.He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing. Thomas Merton
Jeremy Jackson quote: "Sometimes you win by losing."
Sometimes you win by losing. Jeremy Jackson
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Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce. Peter R. Grant
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait. V. S. Naipaul