Quotern

Quotern

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

-- Romain Rolland

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Imagine using as an authority in the matter of marriage the opinion of a celibate priest!

-- Joseph Lewis

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Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.

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I have spent a good many years since - too many, I think - being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

-- Stephen King

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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

-- Anton Chekhov

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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

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Success is when everything you planned to go wrong, fits in your plan.

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Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

-- Thomas Merton

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Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts - some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

-- Theodosius Dobzhansky

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The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

-- John Bachman

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