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...Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found a pleasure to watch and a pain to mimic. Pat Conroy
Mary Kay Ash quote: "My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I..."
My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared Mary Kay Ash
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior."
Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance. Jodi Picoult
Christopher Morley quote: "It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then,..."
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. Christopher Morley
C. S. Lewis quote: "Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give..."
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music? C. S. Lewis
Fernando Pessoa quote: "But I am not perfect in my way of putting things. Because I..."
But I am not perfect in my way of putting things. Because I lack the divine simplicity. Of being only what I appear to be. Fernando Pessoa
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At teh end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before... Stephen Hawking
Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it. Joss Whedon
Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality. Robertson Davies
He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence began with his style and eventually ended up with our own. Nora Ephron
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past. Susan Sontag
Paulo Coelho quote: "And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how..."
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. Paulo Coelho
Hans Christian Andersen quote: "To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy."
To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy. Hans Christian Andersen
And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to. J. R. R. Tolkien

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