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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. George Bernard Shaw
Maria Edgeworth quote: "Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards..."
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves. Maria Edgeworth
Paul Auster quote: "What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how..."
What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes. Paul Auster
Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good. Dr. Seuss
J. D. Salinger quote: "That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's..."
That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. J. D. Salinger
See, ma'am, frankly speaking this problem can't be solved by us police or military. The problem with these tribals is they don't understand greed. Unless they become greedy there's no hope for us. I have told my boss, remove the force and instead put a TV in every home. Everything will be automatically sorted out. Arundhati Roy
The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you. Arnold Bennett
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation. Kurt Vonnegut
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong. Herman Wouk
He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God. I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there. Mitch Albom
Mark Twain quote: "We can't all be heros because someone has to sit on the curb..."
We can't all be heros because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Mark Twain
Wendell Berry quote: "What can't be helped must be endured."
What can't be helped must be endured. Wendell Berry
Brian Tracy quote: "If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going..."
If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year. Brian Tracy
The effect is both domestic and wild, equal parts geometric and chaotic. It's the visual signature of small, diversified farms that creates the picture-postcard landscape here, along with its celebrated gastronomic one. Couldn't Americans learn to love landscapes like these around our cities, treasuring them not just gastronomically but aesthetically, instead of giving everything over to suburban development? Can we only love agriculture on postcards? Barbara Kingsolver
William Butler Yeats quote: "It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one..."
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is William Butler Yeats

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