“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Attitude – Charles Swindoll
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company … a church … a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude … I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you … we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
– Charles Swindoll
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All kinds of love – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.”
– William Sloane Coffin
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Pirate pee – cluedont @cluedont
“I once took the pee out of a pirate. He was furious!”
– cluedont @cluedont
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Message of the stars – Edwin Way Teale
“It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man’s insignificance in the long eternity of time; the deserts speak of his insignificance right now.”
– Edwin Way Teale
“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”
– Novalis
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Romance – Margaret Atwood
“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”
– Margaret Atwood
“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.”
– Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943)
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each. Grow green with the spring, yellow and ripe with autumn.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Rider of life – Hafiz
“There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.”
– Hafiz
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Campaign – Mario Cuomo
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” (Dialectic vs Rhetoric)
– Mario Cuomo
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Responsible – Unknown
“No single raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood. No single snowflake believes it’s responsible for the avalanche.”
– Unknown
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Ideas – Mary McCarthy
“In a certain sense, the ideas are the villains and the people their hapless victims.”
– Mary McCarthy
“I am constantly putting things where they don’t belong, like the cereal in the fridge, or my keys in the laundry, or my faith in other people.”
– Chris Rock