Robert Breault Quotes

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• Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
• Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.
• Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
• The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.
• There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.
• I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a…
• When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O,…
• In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
• Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?
• Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.
• I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.
• In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.
• An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
• I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
• Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"
• The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.
• A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.
• Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.
• When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.
• A watched child never learns.

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