"Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages."

-- James M. Barrie

#Prayer Quotes #Tonight Quotes #Language Quotes

“If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it's an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that's true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia.”

Source : "Prescription for Survival". A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott, www.democracynow.org. March 30, 2011.
“Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.”

Source : Lawrence LeShan (1995). “Meditating to Attain a Healthy Body Weight”, Bantam
“Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.”
“hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.”

Source : Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.14, Open Road Media
“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.”
“There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.”

Source : Andrew Lang (2015). “Ballads in Blue China”, p.35, Library of Alexandria
“I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.”
“Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.”

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