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Rain is Nature's way of telling us to go slowly because the roads will soon be wet. ↗

— Hermester Barrington

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Nature, at times leaves footprints of its inverted sense of humor leaving only hope to laugh at its mysterious humor. ↗

— rangam thoitak chiru

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People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#change #changing #changing-people #circumstances #life

Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress? Is it possible that constant fear is the natural state of man and that by living close to my fear I am actually doing something heroic, Murray?" Do you feel heroic?" No." Then you probably aren't. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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...we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently work, then we should try very, very hard to not screw with them. ↗

— Rowan Jacobsen

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But after years of teaching, we have decided that a lot of mothers just aren't reading textbooks. ↗

— Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg

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In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told me when I pressed him for a reading of the struggle against Islamic radicalism. "In our island, we knew we would prevail, that the Americans would be drawn into the fight. It is different today. We don't know who we are, we don't know the issues, and we still do not understand the nature of the enemy. ↗

— Bernard Lewis

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Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#college #emerson #gold #knowledge #wealth

It is only dogs that never bite their masters. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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