"The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show."

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Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

Flora Thompson

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“The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.”
“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.”

Source : Mass, Imposition Of The Pallium And Conferral Of The Fisherman's Ring For The Beginning Of The Petrine Ministry Of The Bishop Of Rome, w2.vatican.va. April 24, 2005.
“When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.”
“Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.”
“Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.”
“There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.”
“While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.”

Source : Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books
“I like someone who has a super gentle spirit and energy. Iâ€™m really gentle, and so I like a boy who will treat me that way.”

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