"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

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Source : "Wilson vs Watson: The Blessing of Great Enemies". www.newscientist.com. September 10, 2009.

Isaac Newton

#Inspirational Quotes #Teamwork Quotes #Humility Quotes

“I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.”
“Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they canâ€™t quite keep up with gravity.”

Source : Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.298, Pan Macmillan
“Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.”
“Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.”
“Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.”
“The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.”
“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.”

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