"When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. â€¦ Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?"

-- Paul Waldman

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Muggles Quotes

“Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.”
“Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.”

Source : Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.181, Beacon Press
“I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents”
“Our true nationality is mankind.”

Source : H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.644, Barnes & Noble Publishing
“It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.”

Source : 1969 TheWhole Bloody Bird,'Aphs'.
“He was a wise man who invented beer.”
“Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.”
“The price of Justice is eternal publicity.”

Source : Things that have Interested Me (2nd series, 1923) "Secret Trials"

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