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I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#believe #blaming #i #inanimate #objects

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#awe #einstein #emotion #eyes #life

No more separations. At last united, bound for life, and when this life is ended we meet again in the other world to remain together for all eternity. Yours, Yours. ↗

— Empress Alexandra of Russia

#romanov #russia #tsar #life

One of the most effective things you will ever do in life, whether you care to or not, is set an example. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#example #exemplar #life #model #representative

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#any #anyone #doing #moment #provided

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#any #author #come #easily #great

But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain. ↗

— Billy Collins

#love

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#amount #around #bustle #enormous #evil

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#came #einstein #go #him #laws

Even Napoleon had his Watergate. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#had #his #napoleon #watergate