"Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out."

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Terry Pratchett

#Waiting Quotes #Coal Quotes #Diamond Quotes

“A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.”
“We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.”
“No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.”
“It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.”
“The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?”
“Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.”
“The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.”

Source : Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.265, Princeton University Press
“It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.”

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