"The final mystery is oneself."

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Oscar Wilde

#Inspiring Quotes #Learning Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.”
“The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.”
“There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.”
“I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.”
“Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.”
“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”
“Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.172, Penguin
“Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,”

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