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“If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.”
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“We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have the potential to support teachers in achieving NEA s purpose of preparing students to thrive in a democratic society and a diverse, changing world as knowledgeable, creative and engaged citizens and lifelong learners.”
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“It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.”
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“I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan’s under a frenzy of who love me and who shine.”
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“If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.”
Source : Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.162, Random House
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“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”
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“I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.”
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“My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.”
Source : Norval Morrisseau (2005). “Norval Morrisseau: Return to the House of Invention”
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“Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.”
Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Vortex”, p.31, Macmillan
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“By creating explicit occasions to invite dissenting viewpoints on a new project, strategy or policy, leaders enable employees to feel that their questions are welcomed and appreciated.”
