"Brimstone: '...I shall smite thee with my fightful blasting wand so that thy teeth shall drop out, thy skin shall wrinkle, thou shalt have boils on thy bottom and be subject to night sweats, ringing in the ears, falling sickness, flaking dandruff, arthritis, lumbago, uncontrollable dribbling, deafness, runny nose, and ingrowing toenails. Amen."

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Source : Herbie Brennan (2011). “Faerie Wars”, p.27, A&C Black

Herbie Brennan

#Fall Quotes #Night Quotes #Sweat Quotes

“This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.”
“I was born in the 50s, my mom was pregnant in the 50s, [Frank] Sinatra had that big come back around then, From Here to Eternity.”
“Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?”
“You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.”

Source : "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.
“Happiness can be just as contagious as misery.”
“I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.”
“Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.”

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