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About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. ↗

— Richard Russo

#ago #anything #books #bought #cheap

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#development #earth #had #increased #knowledge

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#clear #clear distinction #distinction #enjoyed #false

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#brief #dominion #masters #only #periods

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#another #because #changed #doing #even

The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#again #america #ask #asked #been

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#been #century #democracy #glad #half

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#am #any #aware #course #deeply

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#comedy #connected #equals #find #francis

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#angry #authorship #believing #get #into