"It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot."
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"From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
"I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did."
"Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings."
"Dressed to Kill [10w] At fashionable parties,vegetarians should not be dressed to kill."
"To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
"Poorly Hidden [10w] We're incapable of hiding arrogance, ambition or being in love."
"When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman."
"Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories."
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
"Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?"
"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
"Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears."
"Art is science made clear."
"So consider your options, make your choice and call me home."
"The ultimate source of comfort and peace is within ourselves."
"Any friendship or relationship is about a language."
"At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me."
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