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One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#depart #fall #god #great #leaf

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#free #insane #laugh #learning #lies

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#boils #book #connections #day #down

Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#describing #does #enough #feel #how

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too. ↗

— Aberjhani

#crying #hopefulness #inspiration #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. ↗

— David Eddings

#degree #had #happy #i #novel

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life. ↗

— David Eddings

#army #back #business #experiences #fallen

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#because #deals #determinism #impossible #into