“As it says on the Tshirts:'I don't scare easily - I'm a librarian.', which was the polite version of the original:'Don't give me any of your shit - I'm a librarian.”
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“Understanding was coming so fast, it seemed to bypass thought.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“She looks very virtuous and very melancholy."
"Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
"Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
“When I push the button on my laptop, it should start up. If it doesn’t, it can’t blame its nonexistent emotions. It should respond immediately and appropriately because that’s what it has been created to do.
In evaluating my parenting, I realized much of my anger with my children arose from my having the wrong perspective about them. I was viewing them as if they were machines.”
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In evaluating my parenting, I realized much of my anger with my children arose from my having the wrong perspective about them. I was viewing them as if they were machines.”
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