"I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter."

-- Maria Mitchell

#Trying Quotes #Littles Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.”
“Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?”
“A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.”
“I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.”
“Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.”

Source : "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, p. 241, 1927.
“Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.”
“No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the countryâ€™s dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune. And history shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.”

Source : Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.3, Metropolitan Books
“The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana.'”

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