"Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise."

-- Maya Angelou

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“Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.”

Source : "The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society: JRGS", Volume 27, p. cxxxvii, 1857.
“I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”

Source : Silas House (2010). “Eli the Good”, p.96, Candlewick Press
“Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.”
“We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.”
“Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.”
“I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.”
“I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.”

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