"I'm just trying to matter."

-- June Carter Cash

#Trying Quotes #Matter Quotes

“My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.”
“In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made.”

Source : Solomon Caesar Malan (1856). “Aphorisms on drawing”, p.5
“The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.”
“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.”
“Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.”
“Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents”
“We disbanded our intelligence and then found we needed it. Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.”
“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

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