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1 " Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended. "
― Mark Hodder , The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne, #1)
2 " Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is. "
3 " Every time we are faced with a choice, and we are faced with them every minute of every day, we make a decision to follow its course into the future. But what of the abandoned options? Are they like unopened doors? Do alternative futures lie beyond them? How far would we wander from the course we have steered were we to go back and, just once, open Door A instead of Door B? "
4 " We all act on what we know, what we see, what we are told and how we feel. The simple fact of the matter is that not a single one of us operates under identical influences. That is why the future is always uncertain. "
5 " but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion. "
6 " I want to be a great poet or I am nothing, Richard! To do that I must truly live. And a man can only truly live when Death is his permanent companion. "
7 " A known mistake is better than an unknown truth. "
8 " Everything Life places in your path is an opportunity.No matter how difficult.No matter how upsetting.No matter how impenetrable.No matter how you judge it.An opportunity. "
