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I have to go around with my shirt open so that I have enough room for my chest. — Laura Hillenbrand

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written. — Edward Carpenter

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter

Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience. — Mavis Gallant

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew. — John McWhorter

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof. — J.R. Ward

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. — Edward Carpenter

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society. — Edward Carpenter

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds. — Edward Carpenter

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill. — Bill Gates

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled. — Edward Carpenter

You look into the abyss and the abyss looks back," I said, shrugging. "Then you punch the abyss in the face. — Larry Correia

But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY — Edward Carpenter

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. — Edward Carpenter

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline. — Edward Carpenter

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. — Edward Carpenter

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles. — Edmund Burke

I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done. — Julia Jones

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me. — Edward Carpenter

Adventure without risk is Disneyland. — Douglas Coupland

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. — Edward Carpenter

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. — Albert Einstein

I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now. — Don Mattingly

It saddens me how little you grasp," the woman responded. "Truly. — James Dashner

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. — Edward Carpenter

Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly. — Edward Carpenter

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work. — Edward Carpenter