"I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends."

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Source : E. Nesbit (2004). “7 Books in 1: The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet, The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, The Would-Be-Goods”, p.44, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

E. Nesbit

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Want Quotes

“People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.”
“I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria”

Source : "The Candymakers (The Candymakers, Book 1)". Book by Wendy Mass, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.
“Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.”

Source : Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.102, Quirk Books
“Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.150, Columbia University Press
“To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr
“And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.”
“This weapon [the atomic bomb] has added an additional responsibility - or, better, an additional incentive - to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming inducement for the avoidance of war. It emphasizes the crisis we face in international matters and strengthens the conviction that adequate safeguards for peace must be found.”

Source : "Gen. Groves Warns on Atom 'Suicide'". Opening address of Town Hall's annual lecture series (November 7, 1945) in "The New York Times", November 8, 1945.

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