"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
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"An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame."
"I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind."
"It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the internet-""You invented the internet?"It was my idea, Martha said.Rats are delicious, George said."It was my idea!"Hermes said. "I mean the internet, not the rats. But that's not the point."
"Alone [10w] Alone in bed because of three wordsI hadn't said."
"You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed."
"I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald."
"Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life."
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
"Unpacking books is a revelatory activity."
"The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures."
"Hate [10w] Love cannot hate eradicate ~only a more ruthless hate can."
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
"I love Guns N’ Roses. Reminds me of the last time I tried to pick flowers from my neighbor’s garden."
"In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works."
"O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!"
"I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different."
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