"Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be."

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Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

Maria Mitchell

#Acceptance Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Don't make anyone ask for love.”
“You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.”
“Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.”
“And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.”

Source : Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”
“I know you lost your partner in crime, but...I want YOU to be MINE. Maybe WE should travel the world together, Camryn...I know I can't replace your ex--" "Andrew...it was always you.”
“Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.”
“I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?”
“We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.”

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