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Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. — Patanjali

He had decided not to be angry: it was killing him. — Doris Lessing

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster. — Mortimer J. Adler

She makes my old pick-up truck feel like a limousine. — Rhett Akins

Rather, my research on the moral emotions has led me to conclude that the human mind simply does perceive divinity and sacredness, whether or not God exists. — Jonathan Haidt

Prepare a crossing party," snapped Horyse. "A single person to cross. Miss Abhorsen, here. And Sergeant, if you or Private Rahise so much as talk in your sleep about what you may have heard here, then you'll be on gravedigging fatigues for the rest of your lives! — Garth Nix

What a man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. — Viktor E. Frankl

Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words. — Peter Serafinowicz

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes. — Frank Gehry

Sometimes life will give you ups and downs, but it's up to you to take them as they come. — Stephanie Tom

The poacher's murderer was a man after Archer's own heart, for Archer also didn't like men to hurt Fire or make her acquaintance. — Kristin Cashore

Sheep ain't poetical. — Patrick O'Brian

I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep. — Anna Sheehan

I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness. — George Santayana