"Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good."

-- Gamaliel Bailey

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“You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.”
“Happiness comes from within”
“It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.”
“There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close.”
“Itâ€™s not a guy and a girl, or a girl and a girl or a guy and a guy - itâ€™s a relationship.”
“Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.269, Penguin
“There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.”
“Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get a letter. Or a call. When does it happen?' Pete looked like he wanted to walk toward her, but then he fell back against the car. The staring contest between them for almost a minute, and finally Pete exhaled loudly. It's okay,' he said.”

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