"Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it."

-- Travis Morrison

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“The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.”

Source : George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury”
“My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.”
“martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.”

Source : Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, G K Hall & Company
“The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.”

Source : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press
“I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.”

Source : "In preparing for Hall induction, writing the speech at top of to-do list", www.thehockeynews.com. November 6, 2007.
“I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.”
“Group selection and individual selection are just two of the selection processes that have played important roles in evolution. There also is selection within individual organisms (intragenomic conflict), and selection among multi-species communities (an idea that now is getting attention in work on the human microbiome). All four of these levels of selection find a place in multi-level selection theory.”
“Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.”

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