"We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day."

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Brenda Ueland

#Reading Quotes #Talking Quotes #Listening Quotes

“The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.”

Source : Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.132, Hachette UK
“I love a good non sequitur.”
“The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.”
“Everything I do has a moral to it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You better get it while you can”
“I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.”

Source : Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.37, Zondervan
“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
“The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document false to the name American.”

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