“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”
—Eric Berne
January 2012
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“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.”
—Zen
“To know the height [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.”
—Augustus William
“We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about “and.”
—Arthur Stanley Eddington
“You have to do it by yourself, And you can’t do it alone.”
—Martin Rutte
“I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I’m not all that certain of the here.”
—Robert Brault
“Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”
—George Sand
“The road was new to me, as roads always are going back.”
—Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs