"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Imagination Quotes #Effort Quotes #Literature Quotes

“All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'”
“I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.”
“His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.”
“All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.”
“A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.”
“Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.”
“Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.”

Source : "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.
“It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.”

Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.217

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