"Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!"

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Emily Post

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“Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.”

Source : The Selfish Gene ch. 1 (1976)
“Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowing of trumpets. Here is the great mystery of life and growth. Everything is changing, growing, aiming at something, but silently, unboastfully, taking its time.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside
“All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in their heads; we're going to get some corner of it. We're going to do the best we can, but we already know it's beyond us.”
“When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.”
“The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.”
“...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because they have lost faith in the political classes, or because they feel that the really important issues are not in their power to decide.”
“For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.”

Source : Laurie Lee (1969). “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning”
“And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers”

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