"Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate"

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Jean de La Fontaine

#Greed Quotes #Bones Quotes #Gluttony Quotes

“I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.”

Source : "Their Time Is Now". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2014.
“Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.”

Source : "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.
“We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.”
“I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.”
“When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a thing to be-it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood mean everything. Others believe that it means nothing at all. Being good at being a man can't mean everything, and it has always meant something.”
“I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.”
“Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it.”

Source : Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company
“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”

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