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Able Quotes - Page 21

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Mary Catherine Bateson (2004). “Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery”

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.538, Jazzybee Verlag

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

Liz Carpenter (1993). “Getting Better All the Time”, Texas A & M University Press

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.329, Classic Books Company

Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.

T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.75, BenBella Books

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.303, JHU Press