"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

-- Gustave Flaubert

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“You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.”
“There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.”
“The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.”
“Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?”

Source : "8 Times We Fell In Love With Malala Yousafzai" by Katie O'Malley, www.elle.com. December 7, 2016.
“The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.”
“Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.455, The Floating Press
“...it is business that can exercise the fastest degree of change by seeing the opportunity rather than the threat”
“Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.”

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