"I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes."

-- Kinky Friedman

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“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”
“Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.”
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.179, Copper Canyon Press
“It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”
“I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.”

Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.162, Penguin
“These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.”
“It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.”

Source : "Sarah Kay's Way with Words". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 13, 2013.
“Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.”

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