"A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling."

-- Robert Jordan

#Saplings Quotes #Branches Quotes #Blades Quotes

“I think everyone's against abortion.”
“Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz”
“The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.”
“My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.”
“But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.”
“Sanity is madness put to good use.”
“Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that I gave up - that I surrendered, that I felt that I lost my small war. So the whole column is different than the columns that I used to write back home, back in Jerusalem.”
“The actions you take today not only impact you; they influence generations. Every matter matters for eternity.”

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