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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#beliefs #elude #human #like #natural

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#going #i #know #nothing #now

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#difficult #every #everything #goes #i

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#joke #me #pratfall

The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. ↗

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

#friends #habits #neighbors #beauty

Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#heat #like #minutes #need #up

Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#also #cost #duty #fearful #german

This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#duty #effort #fact #fear #germany

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#existence #fact #lesbians #lies #life

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#after #best #deal #deep #details