"Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought."

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Source : Johanna Spyri (2002). “Heidi (IC) Revised”, Troll Communications Llc

Johanna Spyri

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“I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and Face - they have Facebook going. I think it's more of a personal relationship they have with space now. They see it as more obtainable than me watching my superhero Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. It's like, there's no way I can do that.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
“The whole point of music is being able to share your story.”

Source : Source: www.teenvogue.com
“A person who complains that his children donÂ´t treat him well, should recall how he brought them up.”
“He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.”
“The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.”
“The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the nonessentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless.”

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 17, 2014.
“Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.”

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