"When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell... I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going."

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John Muir

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“There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.”
“Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it.”
“The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.”
“I found it to be kind of ironic, because Iâ€™m white, therefore Iâ€™m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - whoâ€™s white and won it many times - and they didnâ€™t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.”
“I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Smith, www.instyle.co.uk. March 7, 2013.
“Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry came down pretty hard on fellow candidate Howard Dean this weekend. After Dean misspoke several times, Kerry said you can't misspeak 15 times in a week and be president. And Bush said, 'You can't'?”
“Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.15, Cinco Puntos Press
“Therefore, be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. The statement "I have no choice" is a lie. You can choose. You simply do not prefer the alternatives available to you, for whatever reason. So you select the outcome that you most prefer.”

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