"Autumn begins to decorate the ground / with its fragile bits of loosened gold."

-- Teresita Fernandez

#Autumn Quotes #Gold Quotes

“I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.”
“I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.”
“Tis reason's part To govern and to guard the heart, To lull the wayward soul to rest, When hopes and fears distract the breast; Reason may calm this doubtful strife, And steer thy bark through various life.”

Source : Nathaniel Cotton (1812). “The Poetical Works of Nathaniel Cotton: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.77
“I'm going to tell it straight, that yes, I'd love to be traded”
“Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.”
“Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.”

Source : "A Short History Of The English Law". Book by Edward Jenks, (First Edition), Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 364, 1912.
“The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.”
“I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.”

Source : "The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times". Book by Francis Russell, 1968.

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