Quotern

Quotern

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

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Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom.

-- Swami Vivekananda

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

-- Maya Angelou

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I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something

-- Stephen King

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There's a book of poetryin the lines of my handsthat no one wants to read

-- Holly Schindler

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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

-- Franklin P. Jones

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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

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I do not know if there are in fact such things as definable social standards of aesthetics that would have any historical or artistic value, but whether there are or not it seems clear to me that for the painter nothing less than complete personal involvement of a moral nature will do.

-- Patrick Swift

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Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.

-- William Buckland

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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

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