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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#any #attributed #believe #columns #day

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#angles #art #emerge #enter #good

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life. ↗

— Kyle Schmid

#consider #five #four #friends #group

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat. ↗

— Samuel Schmid

#fight #neutrality #part #switzerland #terrorism

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#built #ever #experiment #first #first thing

He shakes his head. "They're hunting the Enkis. I know that. And I get that. But . . . we're special." "The reason they want them is because they're special. Anchovies aren't going to cure anyone." "That's not the special I mean." He catches another fish and hugs it to his chest. I'm trying to be gentle. "They're only special to you because they're yours." "I could say the same thing about that cute kid you were holding." Well, shit. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#specialness #value-of-life #life

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#best #between #create #criticism #dream

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#baseball #been #black #could #dirt

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#affected #almost #anglo #background #backgrounds