"A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal."

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Fall Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.”
“I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.”
“He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.”

Source : Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers
“What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?”
“I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.”
“We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.”
“What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.”
“When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.”

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