"We're always hardest on our own work, I guess."

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Barbara Jane Reyes

“Don't regret your past...It has shaped you. Don't fear your future...It is yours to shape.”
“I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.”
“There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.”
“With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.”
“I'm a big potato chip girl. I don't like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to have my potato chips. I've got bags in the back of my car right now! But I never beat myself up about it, because, look: You can't give up every damn thing. You need something in your life that you like just because you like it!”
“The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us. After all, the West isn't a charity organization. How have we been perceived for centuries? As a huge, warlike realm ruled by despots - first by the czars and then Bolsheviks. Why should anyone have loved us? If we want to be accepted, we have to do something in return. And it's an art that we have yet to master.”
“Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.”
“She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.131

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