"...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing."

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Source : Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”

Emma Donoghue

#Real Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses.”

Source : Paul Gruchow (1997). “Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild”
“Here's the interesting thing: the fact that QE and lowering interest rates almost to zero has worsened inequality, does not mean that raising interest rates will help reduce inequality.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.”
“Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.”
“This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.”

Source : Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.11
“Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.”
“The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.”
“I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.”

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