"Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all."

-- Gertrude Atherton

#Rain Quotes #Persistence Quotes #California Quotes

“In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.”
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”

Source : "Runaway Horses". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1969.
“will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.”
“All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.”
“If you're ever if you're ever thinking, â€œOh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,â€ remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?”
“... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.”
“So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.”

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