"People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that."

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Nina Bawden

#People Quotes #Care Quotes #Remember Quotes

“To go in the direction that I went takes a lot of work. And I don't think you can do the work - the five or six hours of working out a day - if you don't have a clear goal or know why you're doing it. If you just hang out at the gym and train for five or six hours a day without a goal is almost impossible.”
“I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.”
“Then thereâ€™s the biggest problem of them all â€“ the problem of being in an Audi TT when you are not called Angela. I do not know why it can be driven by only people named Angela, but thatâ€™s a fact and thereâ€™s nothing we can do about it. If you have a TT and you arenâ€™t called Angela, you have the wrong car.”
“The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, "I want to love, I want to live...”
“Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.”

Source : Irving Chernev (1965). “The most instructive games of chess ever played”
“Prana (life energy) colored by the tought of the sender may be projected to persons at a distance, who are willing to receive it, and the healing can be done this way.”
“If I would believe what I read about myself, I would hate my guts too.”
“When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.”

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