"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."

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Jonathan Franzen

#Suffering Quotes #May Quotes #Freak Quotes

“God doesn't need verbal language for communication.”

Source : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.70, WaterBrook
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”

Source : "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang (p. 469), 2006.
“I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've set no world record.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

Source : "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".
“Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.”

Source : "The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom - review" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.”

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