"A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing."

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Source : The Life I Really Lived ch. 2 (1979)

Jessamyn West

#Challenges Quotes #Rattlesnakes Quotes #Teach Quotes

“Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God.”
“I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by genius, genius kids. What's interesting about growing up in a culture like that is you go, "All right, I gotta figure out what my thing is. Because I'm not smarter than these kids. I'm not funnier than half of them, so I better figure out what it is I wanna do and work really hard at that because intellectually I'm treading water to, to be here."”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.”
“A caged canary is safe but not free.”
“Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.”

Source : Sen. Richard (Dick) Gephardt's speech at the Democratic National Convention, abcnews.go.com. August 16, 2000.
“In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.”
“For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the flesh is the enemy of God; it is not subject to God's law, nor can it be. And since the wisdom of the flesh is unable to bear the yoke of God's law, it cannot look upon it either, for its eyes are clouded with the smoke of pride.”
“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.”

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