"Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church...The only thing about being canonized is you're already dead so you don't even get to go to the party."

-- Lino Rulli

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“He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening â€” I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.”

Source : Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.123, Random House
“So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.”
“It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.”
“Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'”
“C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group”

Source : "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.
“Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.”

Source : Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.139, Transaction Publishers
“... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere.”
“People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.”

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