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“She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.”
Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.74, New Directions Publishing
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“But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.”
Source : "A History Lesson" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.
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“The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.”
Source : "An Interview with Gordon Moore". Ingenuity 5 (2), May 2000.
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“The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.”
Source : Jack D. Forbes (2011). “Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism”, p.17, Seven Stories Press
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“The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.”
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“The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.”
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“Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.”
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“Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.”