"Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock."

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Source : James Geary (2008). “Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

James Geary

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“Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.”
“Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.”
“I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.”
“A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.”
“Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.”

Source : Robert W. Jenson (2014). “Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation”, p.55, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we need to study small-unit tactics... If you do not have 5,000 rounds of .223, 5,000 rounds of .22 and 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo, as a MINIMUM, you're wrong. We need to train our families how to shoot as well. We need to get food. We need to have a year's supply of food, two years supply of seeds, we need to have a year's supply of sundry items. That's what it means to be an American. We prepare for the worst but hope for the best.”
“VariaciÃ³n / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca bajo espesura de besos. * The still waters of the air under the bough of the echo. The still waters of the water under a frond of stars. The still waters of your mouth under a thicket of kisses. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp”
“People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'”

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