"Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest."

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Source : Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

Eleanor Porter

#Sides Quotes #Plates Quotes

“The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.”

Source : "Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy". p. 336, 2011.
“Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.”

Source : "Interview with Chef Paul Prudhomme". StarChefs.com Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.
“All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books
“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.”
“Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.”
“The next level. As though dating were a computer game.”
“Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.”
“Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.”

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