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“All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.”
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“Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.”
Source : Twitter post from Jul 20, 2015
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“Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by cannibals!" At last I replied, "Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms."”
Source : John Gibson Paton (1907). “John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907”
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“It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.”
Source : "Humanism: Philosophical Essays". Book by F. C. S. Schiller, June 1903.
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“To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.”
Source : "Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home".
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“The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.”
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“For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty.”
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“Idleness induces caprice.”