"Thought is borne of failure."

-- Lancelot Law Whyte

“I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.”
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
“To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.”

Source : Katharine Graham (1998). “Personal History”, Vintage Books
“God did not create the evil. He established the laws which are always good because he is good. The spirits would have been completely happy had they faithfully observed the law since the beginning. But, being free to make choices, the spirits have not properly obeyed them so that evil come as a consequence of this unwillingness. One can then say that good corresponds to everything which is in accordance with God's law while evil is everything which opposes it.”
“Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.”
“I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor), then you realize they're actually talking about actually talking about themselves. The patient's open-heart surgery is nothing compared to their own messed-up heart or whatever. It's selfish. And means they're not concentrating, which is medical negligence.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.
“Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.”
“Arthritic toothless people who love ***** are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.”

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