"Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements."

-- Barbara Johnson

“Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.53
“Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word walk was presented only to the right side of a patient's brain, he got up and started walking. When he was asked why he did this, the left brain (where language is stored and where the word walk was not presented) quickly created a reason for the action: I wanted to go get a Coke.”

Source : "The Ethical Brain". Book by Michael Gazzaniga, 2005.
“... everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.”

Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.172, Penguin
“Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Jun 04, 2013
“God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.”
“I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing ...”
“Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.”

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