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“I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.”
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“To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.”
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“No child should die in the dawn of life.”
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“Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.”
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“I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.”
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“Fall down nine times, get up ten.”
Source : Roz Savage (2013). “Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific”, p.62, Hay House, Inc
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“We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?”
Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”
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“Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.”
Source : William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub
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“I walked around for a while angry, in a bad mood. ... 'Woe is me.' I've gotten over that. It doesn't do any good.”
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“Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.”
Source : Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.250, Profile Books
