"Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting."

-- Charles Dudley Warner

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“My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."”
“A man lets you know who he is by how he treats others.”
“There is someone that I must meet again. And until that dayâ€¦ not even Death himself can take my life away!”
“I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box.”
“Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.”
“Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.”

Source : Max Ernst, Ian Turpin, Julian Stallabrass (1993). “Ernst”, Phaidon Press
“We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.”
“What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.”

Source : "Mae Jemison looks to the future of space travel". Interview with Linda Lorelle, www.chron.com. September 11, 2012.

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