"The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughterâ€”where once stood two women closer than sistersâ€”now stood two strangers."

-- Karen Kingsbury

#Laughter Quotes #Memories Quotes #Rain Quotes

“I think women are excellent social critics.”
“Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.”
“I was just kind of doing the math.”

Source : Source: m.mlb.com
“Erlking,â€ I told her. â€œBig-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.â€ â€œWhy?â€ she asked. â€œWell. I met him,â€ I said.”
“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their dead Reckonings by CÅ“lestial Observations; and to this purpose it has been their principal indeavour to enlarge and strengthen the Senses by Medicine, and by such outward Instruments as are proper for their particular works.”
“It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with Him over night, that they may find them with Him in the morning. Before earthly things break in upon us, and we receive impressions from abroad, it is good to season the heart with thoughts of God, and to consecrate the early and virgin operations of the mind before they are prostituted to baser objects. When the world gets the start of religion in the morning, it can hardly overtake it all the day.”

Source : "Puritan sermons, 1659-1689: being the morning exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles in the Fields, and in Southwark".
“However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.”
“We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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