You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects. - Mary Stewart

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I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt.

Mary Stewart

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

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To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

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The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

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Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

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