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“The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.”
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“But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.”
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“We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.”
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“An obedient wife commands her husband.”
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“To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.”
Source : Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.53, Penguin
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“They [NYPD] tell you how you can act and what you can do your whole entire life. But they always stayed out of it. I did a little here and there for the police department as far as a crime scene that might have occult overtones - they would call me and I'd look into it. But it was usually minor little things.”
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“We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.”
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“The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.”
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“The modern painter…is an excellent couturier”
