"It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway."

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Source : Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

Ouida

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“Experimenters donâ€™t come in lateâ€”they never went home.”
“Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.”
“The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognitionâ€”thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.”
“Realize that the people who are working with you, this is their life. You know, 80% of their time is spent at work. Make sure that they're proud of what they're doing, that they're enjoying what they're doing.”
“I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.”
“But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach.' He who said 'preach,' said also, 'Go ye into and preach,' and what Christ hath joined together let not man put asunder.”

Source : James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”
“I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.”
“You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.”

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