"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying."

-- Marilyn vos Savant

#New York Quotes #Skills Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.”
“Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.”
“Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.”
“Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.”
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
“Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.”
“The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are, and not as we wish them to be. Facts lend themselves to manipulation. Many a butcher's hand is worth more than its weight in gold. What we want things to be, we come to see them to be; and the tailor pulls the coat and the truth into a perfect fit from his point of view.”
“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

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