Quotes to remember

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  1. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

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    Aw, this is so perfect and captures that warm feeling we tend to get around this time of year.
     
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    “There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.”
    ― William Bliss

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    “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia."---Richard Dawkins
     
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    “Overwhelmed by life's complexity? Realize that our alphabet consists of only 26 letters, calculations are based on a set of 10 numbers, all variations in music are based on 7 musical notes, our DNA can be dissected into 4 letters and space on the Planck scale is probably made solely out of binary code”
    ― Martijn Budel
     
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    “It is the hate that is the enemy. Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love.”
    ― Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow
     
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    “After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.”
    ― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
     
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    ''Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But, some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.'' - Joanne Harris
     
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    “He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.”
    ― Michael Montoure, Slices

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    “She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
    ― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
     
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    “There’s calm in the mind of the humble. An unmistakable peace of not having to prove anything to anyone.”
    ― Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono

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    "Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure".
    Thomas Wolfe

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    “Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

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    Forgive me if this has been quoted before.

    If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong
     
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    "Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."--E. E. Cummings

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    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges
     
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    “We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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    “All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.”
    ― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
     
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    "We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies."-----Bill Maher
     
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