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As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others. Bill Bryson
David McCullough quote: "Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes."
Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes. David McCullough
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive Robert A. Heinlein
Richard P. Feynman quote: "We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making..."
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries. Richard P. Feynman
It is often said that the invention of terrible weapons of destruction will put an end to war. That is an error. As the means of extermination are improved, the means of reducing men who hold the state conception of life to submission can be improved to correspond. They may slaughter them by thousands, by millions, they may tear them to pieces, still they will march to war like senseless cattle. Some will want beating to make them move, others will be proud to go if they are allowed to wear a... Leo Tolstoy
Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said. Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?"No, I'm just opportunistic."I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great. Charlaine Harris
Dodie Smith quote: "Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice..."
Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England. Dodie Smith
People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction. Paulo Coelho
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot... Elizabeth Wurtzel
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it’s greedy or loving. Dan Millman
John Donne quote: "To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it..."
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts. John Donne
And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this glistening one moment, this cool air, this new living, so that you can preserve a feeling of it, inasmuch as when it comes again it may just be too late. You may just be too old. And in truth, of course, this may be the last time that you will ever feel this way again. Richard Ford
Irving Berlin quote: "Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how..."
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it. Irving Berlin
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door. John Updike
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder. Bernard Malamud

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