"I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Elizabeth McGovern

#Thinking Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.”

Source : Max Shulman (2016). “Barefoot Boy with Cheek: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media
“A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.”
“This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.381
“Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ...”
“The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.”
“About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.”
“There's nothing I'd really rather do, or can do, except cook.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.”

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