"Desiring is a part of dreaming."

-- Rachel

“So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.”

Source : "Hobbit forming" by Tom Roston, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2001.
“The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.”
“The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.”

Source : "Scott Porter: Nobody wants to watch guys ride a mechanical bull". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 19, 2010.
“The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.”

Source : "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.
“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.”
“One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.”
“I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.”
“In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.”

Source : "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael J. Behe, 1996.

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