"Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing."

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Christina Rossetti

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“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasnâ€™t misled you into thinking you know something you actually donâ€™t know.”
“As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life.”
“I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special.”
“I am a Stormdancer! Mere metal is nothing compared with the power of a storm." Kade made his voice boom and spread his arms wide. His eyes sparked with humor. "I. Am. Invincible." "Until a happy wind blows," I said. "Curse those sunny days." "The bane of your existence." "The scourge of society." "The downfall of decency." "And boring, too. Nothing like a good gale to put a spring in your step." Kade grinned.”
“I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.”
“I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil". Are you a president or an exorcist?!”
“The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,”

Source : "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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