"I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved."

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Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

Marina Keegan

#Animal Quotes #Worry Quotes #Risk Quotes

“...warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases...”
“It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.”
“Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.”
“It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.”

Source : Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”
“If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.”
“Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with”
“I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.”
“If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.”

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