"We had nine pails of candy for Halloween, now we are down to one. They go for a lot of the candy mixes. I think that they buy them for themselves sometimes."

-- Brenda V. Smith

#Halloween Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Nine Quotes

“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”

Source : Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press
“In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.”

Source : Song: Arrival, Album: The Honesty Room
“Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?”
“Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.”
“I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world.”
“A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.”
“Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it means to be human. In Sincerity and Authenticity, Lionel Trilling describes the changes that occurred between about 1850 and 1920, due to the Industrial Revolution and the resulting migration of people from small communities to relative anonymity in cities. Because of that paradigm shift, ideas about what it means to be an individual underwent a transformation that leeched into all areas. Art, psychology, history, marriage, gender.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.”

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