"But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended."

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Barbara Mertz

#Dust Quotes #Instinct Quotes #Scholarly Quotes

“Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”
“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”
“Life is not lived in hours, days, or years, but in moments.”
“If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.”
“It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.”
“These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.26, Penguin
“Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.”
“The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.”

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