"Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself."

-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Wisdom Quotes #Experience Quotes #Information Quotes

“He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".”
“You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.”
“She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.”
“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”

Source : David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin
“I don't believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East. Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments. The argument is more accurate when one says America is focusing more attention to the Far East. But I don't believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You once said you loved me. Do you still?" My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't.”
“Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.”
“What's in that pipe that he's smoking?”

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