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prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container... Joan Didion
Richard Bach quote: "Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together..."
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually. Richard Bach
[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me? Steve Martin
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. Gilbert K. Chesterton
John Grisham quote: "If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough."
If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough. John Grisham
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken? Octavio Paz
However, do you know what? I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for forty years and never open their mouths, but the moment they get into the light of day and break out they may talk and talk and talk... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. Plato
When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be. Thomas S. Monson
Christopher Hitchens quote: "To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed..."
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. Christopher Hitchens
Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled. Richard Branson
Ernest Hemingway quote: "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man;..."
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. Ernest Hemingway
Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They reflected what was probably the most urgent truth operating in me at that time: oh, shit, things can go wrong, and if they do, people get hurt, and I might be one of them, in spite of the fact that I am, you know, me. George Saunders
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr. Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off. Haruki Murakami
It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal. William Wilberforce

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