"Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust."

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Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.140, Essential Library

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#Fall Quotes #Rain Quotes #Unjust Quotes

“[Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.”
“I'm proud to be part of a generation that is looking ahead and wants to see a brighter future.”
“Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse”
“I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)
“Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence? That the strong bias of one decision would be apt to overrule the influence of any new lights, which might be brought to vary the complexion of another decision? Those, who know any thing of human nature, will not hesitate to answer these questions in the affirmative.”
“I was a hardworking junkie. Heroin doesn't affect your brain. It doesn't touch your thinking. It's purely physical.”
“Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh will undoubtedly put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated big government freeloader. In the ‘Everyone Deserves a Trophy’ society we live in, it’s refreshing to know that Jim’s literary voice will cut through the politics, using the American spirit of a used car dealer.”
“All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some other among the myriad forms of life.”

Source : George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.109, New York : C. Scribner

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