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- Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
- Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
- In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Grapes of Wrath
- The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
- For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. - Edwin Teale
- To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
- Edward Chapin
- What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
- Terry Pratchett, Discworld
- He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
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