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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#i #never #nine #smoked #until

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#appears #beauty #considered #demanding #far

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#art #dead #father #his #inclination

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#appointment #court #decides #diligence #doing

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. ↗

— Mo Udall

#fight #more #nature #only #options

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen. ↗

— Debra Messing

#control #find #going #happen #happiness

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#called #cases #down #europe #fighting

Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#drive #get #i #just #know

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#books #different #even #everyone #get

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#going #having #hit #how #i