"A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues."

-- Merrill Markoe

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“Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.”

Source : E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1388, Delphi Classics
“I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart
“In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.”
“I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.”
“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.”

Source : Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia Press
“If I could make anything disappear, it would be hate.”
“If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
“I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.”

Source : Commencement speech for University of California Santa Cruz students, 1996.

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