"The most effective coquetry is innocence."

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Coquetry Quotes #Innocence Quotes

“I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.”

Source : "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2003.
“A dynamic economy begins with a good education.”
“I like writing teen characters because theyâ€™re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.”
“The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is-Time!-Time!-Time!”
“Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?”
“Even the Atheists ... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something ... which was never made or produced -- and which therefore is the cause of those other things that are made, something ... whose existence must needs be necessary.... Wherefore all the question now is, what is this ... self-existent thing, which is the cause of all other things that are made.”
“If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.”
“If you're doing something that you love to make a living, make sure you love it and make sure you do it.”

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