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“Ask yourself this question: will this matter a year from now?”
“My father used to say, a day spent breathing is a good day”
“He would sit down and consider the situation carefully. Not only did this help to identify the solution to the problem, but it also gave him the opportunity to remind himself that things were not r...”
“We must each ascertain our own way to quantify the world. We can choose to peer at life harshly or benevolently. The prism that we select to view the world ultimately is the same standard that we e...”
“It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.”
“You may never understand us, so it's natural you don't give a good manner towards us. It's logical.”
“Were always looking, but we never really see.”
“Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.”
“Ma raised her eyes to the girl's face. Ma's eyes were patient, but the lines of strain were on her forehead. Ma fanned and fanned the air, and her piece of cardboard warned off the flies. "When you...”
“Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the obvious evidence of their huge influence?”
“while its five in the morning here, its also five in the evening somewhere in Chinaproving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.”
“There was grief, too, that was certain, and she was grateful for it, since however loathed he'd been by the end, he'd formed her, at least in part - and what good ever came of self-loathing?”
“Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys....”
“With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.”
“I do have to prioritize my end-of-the-world documents.”
“The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.”
“It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.”
“Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?”
“I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars's atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so muc...”
“Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams”
