"People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted."

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Sarah Addison Allen

#People Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional”
“It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy...”
“Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.”
“Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.”

Source : 1967 Science is Not Enough.
“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.”
“Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”

Source : William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.2, Univ of California Press
“This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.”
“Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.”

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