"Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there."

-- Phil Gramm

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“For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present.”

Source : "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 1785), January 5, 2012.
“I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.”
“Iâ€™d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasnâ€™t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say.”
“I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.”
“We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.”
“When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!”

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“You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.”

Source : Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.239, Scholastic Inc.
“I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.”

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