"Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?"

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“My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.”
“I guess a man's best friend is his mother.”
“There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.”

Source : “On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation” by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2013.
“I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.”
“I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.”
“Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)”
“There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.”
“The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.”

Source : "The National Gain" by Anders Chydenius, (§20), 1765.

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