"I get rational when I panic."

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Amy Hempel

#Panic Quotes #Rational Quotes

“Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.”

Source : James Stephens (2015). “Irish Fairy Tales”, p.8, Booklassic
“I have been very lucky because I have had the opportunity to see what it's like to have little or no money and what it's like to have a lot of it. I'm lucky because people make such a big deal of it and, if I didn't experience both, I wouldn't be able to know how important it really is for me. I can't comment on what having a lot of money means to others, but I do know that for me, having a lot more money isn't a lot better than having enough to cover the basics.”
“Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.”

Source : Thomas Campbell (1822). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.40
“The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.”
“Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.”
“She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.”
“And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.”
“I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.”

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