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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are lucky you are a writer because you will sort through this in ways other souls cannot; the bad part is you feel and see all of this in ways non-writers don't. — Ann Hood

I learned that good leaders don't make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win. — Jocko Willink

not of this world, — Tracy Chevalier

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past. — Rachel Carson

Sometimes just making yourself at home is revolutionary. — Paul Beatty

I couldn't make up anything as weird as what is. — Dean Koontz

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt, — Mark Kurlansky

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love. — Adam Ross

Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped. — Eric Thomas

I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, but get her into a conversation with herself and she was quite the raconteur. She would tell herself a joke and clap her hands together as she let out a laugh; she would murmur to the plants as she watered them, and offer encouragement to the food as she cooked it. Sometimes I would walk into a room and surprise her as she was regaling herself with some delightful story, and I remember how the sound would dry up in her mouth. She stood there, frozen in the headlights of my teenage scorn. — Dan Chaon

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body ... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring. — Eric Schmidt