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“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.”

Source: The Cyberiad

“To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man.”

Knows Men May Light Care Earth Names Liberty Destiny Influence Kings Office Projects Plant Graves Our Time Glorious Bless Ashes Giver Reap Repose Unborn Masons

Book:Morals and Dogma

Source: Morals and Dogma

“In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.”

Littles Care Father Virtue Influence News Aim Judgement Expenses Our Father

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.”

Source: Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

“Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.”

Ifs Long Important Care Sex Simple Taken Influence Over You Shelter What's Important Simple Love

Author:Meryl Streep

“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.”

Ifs Should Care Hell Influence Rocks Healthy Weight Constitution Pressure Heavy Fallen Righteousness Wickedness Spiders Prudence Plunge Letting You Go

Book:Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

Source: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.”

Care Kids Stuff Influence Modern Masters Posts Realism Allegiance

Author:Robert Stone

“Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.”

Thinking Firsts Made Body Care Culture Energy Understanding Ability Consciousness Influence Activity Factors Diets Our Society Affected Inherent Heredity

Author:Christiane Northrup

“The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you're honored by others.”

Giving Care Influence Humble Honored Powerless Humble Yourself

Author:Rick Warren

“I think that covering a conflict that is personal, that influences your very own, your family, gives you some perspectives.As a journalist, when I fly in, I care about every place I go including conflicts.”

Thinking Giving Care Influence Perspective Conflict Including Journalist Our Family I Care Covering

Author:Shaul Schwarz

“I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.”