Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust … - Alice Hegan Rice

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Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

Alice Hegan Rice

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

Dust, Mrs, Philosophy, Reality, Substance, Wiggs

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Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

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No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.

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Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.

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There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

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Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

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This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

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Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous. . . . You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.

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A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

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Amelie said, “I won’t be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals. ” She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. “Now defend what is ours, my partner. ” He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.

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