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The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#inspiration #meaning #peony #small-things #beauty

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#lesson #value

People are essentially red meat. They are. ↗

— Max Cannon

#meat #people #red #red meat

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example. ↗

— Lauren Bush

#example #i #job #make #more

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#easy #equal #experience #fame #glory

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#black #did #had #keyboards #lot

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ↗

— Samuel Butler

#distinctly #excluded #felicity #general #heaven

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#company #doing #enjoy #good #good company

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#least #misleading #often #thing #though

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#childish #define #deny #ever #god