"Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age."

-- Sherwin B. Nuland

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“Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.”
“Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.”
“I have been given much, and so I want to give as much as I can.”

Source : "Exclusive: Noah Munck's Haitian Travel Diary", www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2012.
“The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.”
“It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.”
“We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.”
“Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.”
“Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

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