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“Immanuel Birmelin, an ethologist at the Society of Animal Behavior Research in Germany, explained how patient he’d had to be in order to run a test to see if cats can count: “One of the cats would do the test once in the morning—only!” he recalled. “Another would do it once in the afternoon—only!” It had taken him four years to show that cats can count to four.”
― Virginia Morell, Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures

“Okay, maybe I could imagine it, but obviously that didn’t mean anything like it could have really happened. It just meant I was weird and crazy.”
― Harper Lin, A Hiss-tory of Magic

“She wants you to tell her she is just going to be displeased, David. She knows you can’t fix everything and it frustrates her when you try. Just tell her it isn’t anything you can fix but you will get through it together.”
― Wilson Harp, EMP

“Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh