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Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.


Brother Lawrence


#practice-presence-of-god #business

At the age when we are all of us most apt to take our colouring, in the form of a reflection from the colouring of other people, he had been sent abroad, and had been passed on from one nation to another, before there was time for any one colouring more than another to settle itself on him firmly. As a consequence of this, he had come back with so many different sides to his character, all more or less jarring with each other, that he seemed to pass his life in a state of perpetual contradiction with himself. He could be a busy man, and a lazy man; cloudy in the head, and clear in the head; a model of determination, and a spectacle of helplessness, all together. He had his French side, and his German side, and his Italian side--the original English foundation showing through, every now and then, as much as to say, "Here I am, sorely transmogrified, as you see, but there's something of me left at the bottom of him still.


Wilkie Collins


#age

Belief has nothing to do with facts, especially for the unbelievable facts.


Toba Beta


#fact #life #people #truth #unbelievable

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.


Burton Richter


#devoted #director #down #energy #energy sources

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.


Eddie Rickenbacker


#character #cornerstones #four #imagination #independence

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.


Alan Rickman


#being #comic #i #mind #quite

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?


Jeremy Rifkin


#birds #come #contact #digest #happens

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.


Faith Ringgold


#away #enjoy #exactly #feel #get

Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.


John Ritter


#again #blowing #came #did #during

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.


Carl Hiaasen


#humor #humor






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