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-- Anne Lamott

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“I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.”
“Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.”
“The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way.”

Source : Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
“I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.”
“As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful...”
“To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.”
“Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.”

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