"Thought alone is eternal"

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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.”
“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”
“If everyone catches the cold virus it just... might make you fall into Onew Condition for a while!”
“I was in two very horrible bands.”

Source : "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.
“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”
“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.”
“Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.”

Source : Lisa Unger (2010). “Fragile: A Novel”, p.256, Crown
“Disappointment is often the salt of life.”

Source : Theodore Parker (1864). “Miscellaneous Discourses”, p.116

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