"Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we can do is give you both. . . . The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

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Eden Phillpotts

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“I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.”
“At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter”
“May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.”

Source : "Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek: with Notes, Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, rtansl. by John Langhorne and William Langhorne, p. 225, 1850.
“Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.”
“Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.”
“This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.”
“If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.”
“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”

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