"Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hands Quotes #Tree Quotes #Splinters Quotes

“I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.”
“It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.”

Source : "Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, Talks About Her New Show on the Food Network" by Brenna Cammeron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
“Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.”
“I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.”

Source : "Tomlin Looks Ahead". Interview with Ed Bouchette, www.post-gazette.com. August 01, 2009.
“It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.”
“The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.”

Source : Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.176, Eliphas Levi
“The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.”

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