"To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man."

-- Joseph Addison

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“When I get home, I'm not very happy. Especially when I didn't do something to help the cause.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.”
“An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.”

Source : "Mauvaises Pensées et Autres". Book by Paul Valery, 1941.
“Don’t be scared... Be positive... Please don’t think that your life is about to end... Take the right advice and act as soon as you can... If there’s an issue in your system, don’t ignore it.”
“Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'”
“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.”

Source : "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.
“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press
“Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.”

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