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I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. ↗

— James Ellroy

#about #absolutely #am #being #brilliant

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau

#dreadful #having #nothing

I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#another #because #better #children #doing

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds

Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water. ↗

— William Powers

#environment #humans #kevlar #preservation #silk

Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#children #good #grip #industry #know

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. ↗

— Epictetus

#dreaded #fear #pain

I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that's something I feed off. I'm just going to go out there and do my best. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athletes #best #british #day #end

I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#british #experience #flags #full #i

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#courage #else #lot #our dreams #show