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Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. Terry Prachett
Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking... J. K. Rowling
Mario Puzo quote: "I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and..."
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. Mario Puzo
Henry David Thoreau quote: "how do you think you can kill time without injuring eternity?"
how do you think you can kill time without injuring eternity? Henry David Thoreau
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. James Allen
Abraham Lincoln quote: "If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant..."
If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again. Abraham Lincoln
I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me. Agatha Christie
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand Oscar Wilde
Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline. Michael Crichton
Her expression changed then, becoming fearful rather than merely pained. It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shakey ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape. David Sedaris
An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else. C. S. Lewis
Roses are red, Violets are blue, No amount of money, Can stop me from loving you, Try as they may, Try as they might, I’m not letting go, Without a fight, Some say it’s wicked, Some say it’s sinful, Some it’s wrong, And just wrong, I don’t know much, But when push comes to shove, I definitely don’t believe, There’s such thing wrong as love. Chris Colfer
Roald Dahl quote: "i fell roald dahl can make your day funny and sunny when your..."
i fell roald dahl can make your day funny and sunny when your felling boring and grey. Roald Dahl
Higher Power makes promises we all know they can't back up, but anybody ever go and slap an old malpractice suit on God? Or the U.S. government? No they don't. Faith might be stupid, but it gets us through. Louise Erdrich
John Stuart Mill quote: "An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid..."
An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular. John Stuart Mill

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