"I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much."

-- Russell Baker

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“We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.”

Source : Huston Smith (2009). “The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction”, p.37, Harper Collins
“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.”
“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”
“Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.”
“You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.”
“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”
“My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they're fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.”

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