"Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle."

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Alvah Bessie

#Uncles Quotes #Aunt Quotes #Beard Quotes

“Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin.”
“Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.”
“My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”
“We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.”

Source : "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" by Vladimir Sevruk, (p. 27), 1974.
“The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.”
“And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.”

Source : Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.151, Kate Chopin
“For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.”
“The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.”

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