"Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ..."

-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Weak Quotes #Let Me Quotes

“Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.”
“Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.”
“In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.”
“Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.”
“With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.”
“There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.”
“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”

Source : Phyllis A. Whitney (1945). “The Silver Inkwell”
“The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarineâ€”guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.”

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