Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, … - Diane Ackerman - Quotesmemo.com

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So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. . . . At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.

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Diane Ackerman

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

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For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

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