"Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Fall Quotes #Wings Quotes #Track Quotes

“Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.”
“God says, 'One woman, one man,' and everyone says, 'Oh, that's old hat, that's that old Bible stuff,'" he said. "But I'm thinking, well let's see now. A clean guy - a disease-free guy and a disease-free woman - they marry and they keep their sex between the two of them. They're not going to get chlamydia, and gonorrhea, and syphilis, and AIDS. It's safe.”
“Be the trouble you want to see in the world.”

Source : "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,
“The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.”
“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.”
“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”
“You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “The Death of William Posters: A Novel”, p.55, Open Road Media
“Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.”

Source : "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

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