"When you are Real, shabbiness doesn't matter."

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Source : Margery Williams Bianco, Margery Williams, Thea Kliros (1989). “The Velveteen Rabbit Coloring Book”, p.22, Courier Corporation

Margery Williams

#Real Quotes #Matter Quotes

“If you want peace and well-being to be in place in the Middle East and you want terrorism to be uprooted, then there's no path other than the presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, you saw that in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen that the power that was able to help the people of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen in the face of terrorist groups was the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
“What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions.”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole #11: To Be a King”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.
“I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.”
“I study nature so as not to do foolish things.”
“I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.”
“Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something happened to me when I heard that music. It leapt out of the speakers and went straight into my heart. And I thought, "Right, that's what I'm doing."”
“Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.”
“I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.”

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