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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.


Anne McCaffrey

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Holder, crafter you also hew
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Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
ANNE SEXTON It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossibl...
ANNE FRANK I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
ANNE BISHOP A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
ANNE RICE Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surger...
ANNE SEXTON It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o...
ANNE LAMOTT Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
ANNE BISHOP It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without...
ANNE SPOLLEN Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
ANNE SULLIVAN ... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is ...
ANNE SULLIVAN Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you ...
ANNE FRANK I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is ...
ANNE FRANK There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE