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Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their faces. Eyes that looked worried grew soft and peaceful; tongues left off chattering; and ears full of the city's rustling were rested by the cricket's melody. — George Selden

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing. — Henry Hazlitt

Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm. — Anthony Shadid

You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It's something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss. — Jostein Gaarder

There are emotional ties to family that are connected to the sexual experience for women that are very different than men which does make it harder for women to date and not get hurt. — Zoe Lister-Jones

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series. — Tracy Hickman

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people. — Juliana Hatfield

Life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score. — Pat Summitt

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead. — Philip Johnson

you're going to find most of the rules we have really do make sense. Don't murder. Don't steal. Don't rape. Don't beat people up. Don't be an insufferable asshole. But if you're similarly rational, you're going to realize that some of the rules and norms don't feel as black and white to you. A few that I decided didn't jibe: Everyone must be insured, so pay $1200 per month for it. Tattoos are for wackos and frat boys. Never renege on a past choice that is ruining your life. — Johnny B. Truant

Sometimes you have to lose your way to find yourself. — Linda Bradley