Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.
BEE DAWSONO God, how lovely still is life!
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You could move.’ —“Dear Abby” responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN -
You are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDE -
The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker… Judging requires a certain impartiality.
CLARENCE THOMAS -
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
SIMONE WEIL -
Everybody always says that I’m the girl next door, which makes me think that y’all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.
KELLY CLARKSON -
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGAN -
Something about the vastness and beauty of nature makes the self feel small and insignificant, and anything that shrinks the self creates an opportunity for spiritual experience.
ANONYMOUS -
I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to.
ALAN LOY MCGINNIS -
We worship God through our questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
More and more people are interested in jumping on the Ring Of Honour train. I definitely think the success will continue.
ADAM COLE -
Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat.
SUN TZU -
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD -
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
ALBERT EINSTEIN -
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO -
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUD