"Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love."

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Source : Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Thomas M. Disch

#Flower Quotes #Paradox Quotes #Daisies Quotes

“Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?”
“Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.”
“Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.”

Source : "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.
“Point at solutions instead of at each other.”

Source : Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton (2006). “Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management”, p.178, Harvard Business Press
“Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely.”

Source : Gabriel Cousens, M.D. (2009). “Conscious Eating: Second Edition”, p.587, North Atlantic Books
“To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.”
“I had a soft spot for crazy people.”
“N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.”

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