"[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them."

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Linus Pauling

#Learning Quotes #Science Quotes #Stamps Quotes

“Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.”
“Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.”
“Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!”
“I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.”
“If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (1979). “Riddle of Stars”
“I have the rematch that I wanted. I'm going to knockout a Mexican and I will reconquer my title”
“Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.”
“A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.”

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