"I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland."

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Source : Howard Pyle, Katharine Pyle (1887). “The Wonder Clock Or, Four and Twenty Marvelous Tales”, p.5, Courier Corporation

Howard Pyle

#Dream Quotes #One Day Quotes #Wonderland Quotes

“According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.”
“Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.”
“Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.”
“America doesn't have health insurance.”
“We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquillity the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin. We want revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European war. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to deal with Fascism.”

Source : The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.
“You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.”
“The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.”
“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.”

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