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I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.


Studs Terkel


#business

Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before." "I know that. Where do you think I got my information?" "What do you know about us?" "I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it is troubled." "It is beautiful," Meg said defensively. She felt a rippling of his wings. "In the middle of your cities?" "Well-no-but I don't live in a city." "And is your planet peaceful?" "Well-no-it isn't very peaceful." "I had the idea," Proginoskes moved reluctantly within her mind, "that there are wars on your planet. People fighting and killing each other." "Yes, that's so, but-" "And children go hungry." "Yes." "And people don't understand each other." "Not always." "And there's-there's hate?" "Yes." She felt Proginoskes pulling away. "All I want to do," he was murmuring to himself, "is go some place quiet and recite the names of the stars...


Madeleine L'Engle


#angels #cherubim #earth #hate #history

For she had eyes and chose me.


William Shakespeare


#eyes #looks #love #love-story #lovers

As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business.  I am a storyteller.  Daydreaming is the best part of my job.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#daydreaming #richelle #richelle-goodrich #storytelling #writing

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid


Lucian of Samosata


#freedom #historian #history #business

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.


Oscar Wilde


#history #change

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.


Carolyn See


#women #writing #change

We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.


S.J. Watson


#history #memory #remember #change

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?


Steve Maraboli


#change #destiny #history #inspirational #life

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.


Ann Voskamp


#ending #story #change






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