"Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time."

-- Francine Prose

#Children Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Handwriting Quotes

“Let sleeping dogs lie.”
“History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.”
“Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.”
“I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point.”
“Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.”

Source : "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.
“A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.”
“I experienced firsthand not only the mental and physical damage being unhealthy does to a person, but I also recognized the discrimination many overweight people faced because of their public image. And I, like everyone else, is susceptible to falling into negative patterns that can cause weight gain.”
“If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.”

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