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“There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.”

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Don Marquis, an American humorist, was born on July 29, 1878, and died on December 29, 1937. He is known for his witty short stories and column articles, with his most famous work being the 'Archy and Mehitabel' series. more

“When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you the way things are and then you choose to do something and you do it. That's what people generally assume. But actually, the way you think determines the way you're going to do things. Then you don't notice a result comes back, or you don't see it as a result of what you've done, or even less do you see it as a result of how you were thinking. Is that clear?”

People Thinking Way Mind Done Feelings Results Clear Assuming Determine You Choose

Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.”

World Feelings Care Earth Law Heaven Voice All Things Harmony Seats Bosoms Heaven And Earth Homage Divine Law

Author:Richard Hooker

“And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.”

Way Long Animal Alive Generations Dog Youth Training Instinct Forests Remembered Ran Meat Packs Vague Dog Training Primeval Wild Dogs

Book:Call of The Wild, White Fang

Source: Call of The Wild, White Fang

“I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.”

Way Play Brain Too Much Alcohol Chess Blitz

Author:Nigel Short

“I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.”

Ifs Doe Hard Enjoy Hard Work Degrees Claims Satisfaction Coaches Chess Income Coaching Steady Nevertheless

Author:Nigel Short

“I think I'm a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.”

Thinking Knows Giving Able Wife Girlfriend Good Wife Good Girlfriend

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.”

Wanted Film Used Found Sleep Watches Four Horror Shining Including Terrified Horror Film

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.”

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