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She tells the family that her husband squeezed her hand tight just before he died, but that the doctor said it had only been a reflex reaction. It was then that I felt close to her for the first time.
“A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”
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“Fame is—has always been—the sister of giants.”
― The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
― The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
“If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.”
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“Russian short story master Isaac Babel put it, “no iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician (it is said) were holidaying in Scotland. Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field. “How interesting,” observed the astronomer, “all Scottish sheep are black!” To which the physicist responded, “No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!” The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, “In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black.”
― The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
― The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
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