"Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion."

-- Eudora Welty

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“Folic acid deficiency does the same thing as radiation.”
“The terrifying thing in my life is that I am just an actress. And I have to keep pushing it and getting approval, approval, approval or I donâ€™t think Iâ€™m worth two cents. And I am starting to get over it, thank God. And Iâ€™m just sad because I donâ€™t have many years left and I wish I had a longer space of time to think that Elaine Stritch isÂ okay.”
“The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.”

Source : Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.80, John Wiley & Sons
“A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.”
“The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.”
“I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I often just go right through the alphabet in my head when I'm looking for a rhyme.”
“The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.”

Source : Andrew W. Mellon (2016). “Taxation: The People’s Business”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.”

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