"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Spring Quotes #Believe Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.”
“I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.”
“I hope to become an actor who succeed not from how I look, but my talent.”
“Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.”

Source : "Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos" by Ian Stewart, New York: Penguin Books, (p. 17), 1989.
“I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.”
“On paper we might be the best team in the league. Weâ€™ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldnâ€™t put it together.”
“Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.”
“HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.”

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