"He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed."

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Source : Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”

Rupert Hughes

#Done Quotes #Helping Quotes #Plant Quotes

“Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.”
“why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?”
“I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.”
“I played a lawyer in a movie so many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.”
“The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.”
“Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.”
“I love you more than I hate everything else.”

Source : Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.71, St. Martin's Press
“I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.”

Source : Charles Darwin (2008). “On the Origin of Species”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated

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