"Do well the duty that lies before you."

-- Pittacus of Mytilene

#Lying Quotes #Duty Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.”
“If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.”

Source : William Allen White (1906). “In Our Town”
“Work is love made visible.”
“It has to get ugly before it gets pretty!”
“The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.”
“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.”
“I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.”
“In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.”

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