"Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible."

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Source : John D. MacDonald (1985). “Five complete Travis McGee novels”, Outlet

John D. MacDonald

#Mean Quotes #Adults Quotes #Action Quotes

“I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.”
“If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.”
“Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.”
“I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.”
“If you can't beat them. Join them”
“I love to see people succeed in their goals.”
“I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In reasoning, therefore, from appearances which are particular, care must be taken how we generalize; we should be cautious not to attribute to nature, laws which may perhaps be only of our own invention.”

Source : James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.65

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