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Could be off one of your own boats, Lavette," Whittier said. "The crab I mean." Whittier was hostile, contriving his hostility in witless remarks. Dan said nothing, only thinking that if this small, pompous, foolish man, so uninformed about the essence of his own business, was a measure of the hundred tycoons who ruled the hills of San Francisco, then his own way up would be none too difficult. It came down to money; if you had money, you functioned and you could do without guts or brains; and if you had money, you saw a girl like Jean Sheldon more than once, more than by accident. ↗


— Howard Fast


#the-immigrants #business

How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing joys. As they meander along the lane that leads to our school all kinds of natural toys present themselves for their diversion. The seedpods of stitchwort hang ready for delightful popping between thumb and finger, and later the bladder campion offers a larger, if less crisp, globe to burst. In the autumn, acorns, beechnuts, and conkers bedizen their path, with all their manifold possibilities of fun. In the summer, there is an assortment of honeys to be sucked from bindweed flowers, held fragile and fragrant to hungry lips, and the tiny funnels of honeysuckle and clover blossoms to taste. ↗


— Miss Read


#children #country #countryside #nature #plants

Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want. ↗


— Santosh Kalwar


#heart #wanting #wants #dreams

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. ↗


— E. O. Wilson


#affected #ants #humans #i #i think

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more. ↗


— Sarah Dessen


#love #relationships #wants #dreams

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent. ↗


— Natan Sharansky


#because #believe #dissent #everyone #fear

I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats. ↗


— Gary Sheffield


#belong #check #debate #debated #fame

Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need? ↗


— Gary Sheffield


#ask #else #everybody #gary #i

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. ↗


— Anatole France


#average #average man #does #forever #know

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. ↗


— Susan Sontag


#militants #only #signs #surrealism #thought






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