"Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze."

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Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

George Iles

#Science Quotes #Ice Quotes #Focus Quotes

“She realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized that her expectations for herself and others were sometimes too rigid. She was trying to live up to what everyone else said was best for her, which made her depressed and hard to be around at times. Once she changed her beliefs about herself and others, she began to smile more and enjoy life.”
“Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.”
“Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It's Romney's inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the governmentâ€™s tax code largesse, thatâ€™s a little offensive to people, especially considering Romney's view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don't know, food and medicine.”
“A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.”
“We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.”
“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”
“The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.”
“The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge...”

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