"Don't see a thing working-see it finished!"

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Raymond Buckland

“Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.”

Source : C.E. Murphy (2012). “Raven Calls”, p.132, Harlequin
“The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.”
“My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.”
“Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet.”
“There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.”
“The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”
“A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.”
“The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.”

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