"The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people."

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Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “Affinities”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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“I don't feel like I'm taking pictures, I feel like I'm just gathering them in. They're all out there. I know where they'll be; I just have to get out of bed early enough to bring them home. Like lost kittens.”
“Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'”
“people are all there is to an organization”
“I don't like people that litter. If you don't throw a wrapper in the trashcan and you just toss it out on the ground I wanna take you and toss you into outer space.”
“We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.”
“It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.”
“Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.”
“I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential contributor to social and environmental protection and call for the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide.”

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