"Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling."

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Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

Eden Robinson

#Hate Quotes #Reading Quotes #Autumn Quotes

“Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.”
“When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.”
“There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? Sex and the City started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.”
“A special workplace has many ingredients. The feeling that you are part of a team, a sense of community, the knowledge that what you do has real purpose - all these things help to make work fun. But by far the most important factor is whether people are able to use their individual talents and skills to do something useful, significant, and worthwhile.”

Source : Dennis Bakke (2010). “Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job”, p.75, PVG
“To be a striker you need to be in good shape.”
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”

Source : Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”
“In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.”

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