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I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#charitable #code #enforcement #giving #integrity

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized. ↗

— Asa Gray

#between #could #differences #distinctively #every

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms. ↗

— Asa Gray

#did #found #life #living #manifested

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever. ↗

— Erin Gray

#child #constantly #dealt #grief #had

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas. ↗

— Horace Gray

#fruit #just #peas #speaking #tomatoes

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. ↗

— John Gray

#giving #just #men #receiving #women

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#baby #having #held #i #keep

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet. ↗

— Eva Green

#am #another #dreamer #i #i am